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Buckminster Fuller General Systems Yearbook 
Cosmic View Synthesis of Form 
Full Earth On Growth and Form 
Earth Photographs Tantra Art 
The World From Above Psychological Reflections 
ee Surface Anatomy The Human Use of Human Beings 
% Geology Illustrated The Ghost in the Machine 
: Sensitive Chaos The Year 2000 
: A Year From Monday The Futurist 
> Shelter and Land Use 
by 
The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller Village Technology 
. Space Structures The Indian Tipi 
Tensile Structures, Volume One Tipis 
Dome Cookbook Aladdin Kerosene Lamps 
Good News Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth 
Architectural Design Two Mushroom Books 
The Japanese House Organic Gardening 
Aude! Guides ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture 
Alaskan Mill Universal Mill 
The Way Things Work Science and Civilization in China, Volume IV, 
Introduction to Engineering Design Part 2 Van Waters & Rogers 
The Measure of Man Silvo Catalog Bookmaking 
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers Brookstone Tools Zone System Manual 
New Scientist Jensen Tools A Sculptor’s Manual 
Scientific American Miners Catalog Creative Glass Blowing 
Industrial Design Blasters’ Handbook Buckskin 
Product Engineering Direct Use of the Sun’s Energy Cut Beads 
Clearinghouse Structure, Form and Movement Melrose Yarns 
Communications 


Human Biocomputer Education Automation American Cinematographer Manual 

The Mind of the Dolphin Intelligent Life in the Universe The Technique of Documentary Film Production 
’ Information The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Space The Technique of Television of Production 

9100A Computer Lafayette and Allied Catalogs Auto Repair Manual 

Cybernetics Heathkit Books 

Eye and Brain Modern Business Forms Subject Guide to Books in Print 

Design for a Brain American Cinematographer Art Prints 


Community 


The Modern Utopian The Merck Manual 


The Realist Land for Sale 

Green Revolution Consumer Reports 

Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia Government Publications | 
Dune The Armchair Shopper’s Guide | 
Groups Under Stress How to Get 20% to 90% off on Everything You Buy 


Nomadics 


Innovator Recreational Equipment 
The Retreater’s Bibliography Gerry Outdoor Equipment 
The Book of Survival Kaibab Boots 
The Survival Book Hot Springs 
Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes The Explorers Trademark Log 
P Camping and Woodcraft National Geographic 
Light Weight Camping Equipment and How to Make It Sierra Club 
Backpacking The Narrow Road to the Deep North 
L.L. Bean Trout Fishing In American 
Learning 
Toward a Theory of Instruction Edmund Scientific Meditation Cushions and Mats 
The Black Box WFF ‘N PROOF Self Hypnotism 
THIS Magazine is about Schools Dr. Nim Psycho-Cybernetics 
Cuisenaire Rods We Built Our Own Computers A Yaqui Way of Knowledge 
ITA American Boys Handy Book Fundamentals of Yoga 
LIFE Science Library Pioneer Posters The Act of Creation 
Kaiser Aluminum News Sense Relaxation The | Ching 


700 Science Experiments for Everybody Zen Flesh, Zen Bones 








WHOLE EARTH CATALOG 1968 





PURPOSE 


We are as gods and might as well get used to it. So far, remotely done 

power and glory—as via government, big business, formal education, 

church—has succeeded to the point where gross obscure actual gains. 

In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, 

personal power is developing—power of the individual to conduct his | 

own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, Migs Shs... 
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Buckminster Fuller 


The insights of Buckminster Fuller are what initiated this 
catalog. 


Of the four books reviewed here, Nine Chains to the Moon 
is his earliest and most openly metaphysical, Ideas and 
Integrities his most personal, No More Secondhand God 
the most recent, World Design Science Decade the most 
programmatic. 








People who beef about Fuller mainly complain about his 
repetition — the same ideas again and again, it's embar- 
rassing. It is embarrassing, also illuminating, because the 
same notions take on different uses when re-approached 
from different angles or with different contexts, Fuller's 
lectures have a raga quality of rich nonlinear endless 
improvisation full of convergent surprises. 


Some are put off by his language, which makes demands 
on your head like suddenly discovering an extra engine in 
your car — if you don’t let it drive you faster, it'll drag you. 
Fuller won't wait. He spent two years silent after illusory 
language got him in trouble, and he returned to human 
communication with a redesigned instrument. 


With that, empirical curiosity, and New England persever- 
ance Fuller has forged one of the most onginal personalities and 
functional intellects of the age. 


| see God in 

the instruments and the mechanisms that 
work 

reliably, 

more reliably than the limited sensory departments of 
the human mechanism. 

And God says 

observe the paradox 

of man's creative potentials 

and his destructive tactics. 

He could have his new world 

through sufficient love 

for “all's fair” 





Ideas and Integrities Home 
Buckminster Fuller Prentic:-Hall Inc. 
1963; 318 pp. Enc “4 Cliffs 
Ne- »1 07631 
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Standing by the lake on a jump-or-think basis, the very first sponta- 
neous question coming to mind was, “If you put aside everything 





Nine Chains to the Moon No More Secondhand God 
Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller 
1963; 163 pp. 


1938, 1963; 375 pp. 


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{Ideas and Integrities] 

Thinking is a putting-aside, rather than a putting-in discipline, e.g., 
putting aside the tall grasses in order to isolate the trail into infor- 
mative viewability. Thinking is FM — frequency modulation-for it 
results in tuning-out of irrelevancies as a result of definitive 
resolution of the exclusivity turned-in or accepted feed-back 
messages’ pattern differentiatability. 

[{“Omnidirectional Halo” No More Secondhand God] 


Common to all such “human” mechanisms — and without which 
they are imbecile contraptions — is their guidance by a phantom 
captain. 


, i 
in love as:well as. in war. you've ever been asked to believe and have recourse only to your own 


which means you can 

junk as much rubbish, 

skip as many stupid agreements 
by love, 

spontaneous unselfishness radiant. 


The revolution has come- 

set on fire from the top. 

Let it burn swiftly. 

Neither the branches, trunk, nor roots will be endangered. 
Only last year’s leaves and 

the parasite-bearded moss and orchids 

will not be there 

when the next spring brings fresh growth 

and free standing flowers. 


Here is God's purpose— 

for God, to me, it seems, 

is a verb 

not a noun, 

proper or improper; 

is the articulation 

not the art, objective or subjective; 

is loving, 

not the abstraction “love” commanded or entreated; 
is knowledge dynamic, 

not legislative code, 

not proclamation law. 

not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon. 
Yes, God is a verb, 

the most active, 

connoting the vast harmonic 

reordering of the universe 

from unleashed chaos of energy. 

And there is born unheralded 

a great natural peace, 

not out of exclusive 

pseudo-static security 

but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing. 
Naught is lost. 

Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled. 


And I've thought through to tomorrow 
which is also today. 

The telephone rings 

and you say to me 

Hello Buckling this is Christopher; or 
Daddy it’s Allegra; or 

Mr. Fuller this is the Telephone Company Business Office; 
and | say you are inaccurate. 

Because | knew you were going to call 
and furthermore | recognize 

that it is God who is “speaking.” 


And you say 
aren’t you being fantastic? 
And knowing you | say no. 


All organized religions of the past 
were inherently developed 

as beliefs and credits 

in “second hand” information. 


Therefore it will be an entirely new era 
when man finds himself confronted 
with direct experience 
with an obviously a priori 
intellectually anticipatory competence 
that has interordered 
all that he is discovering. 
[No More Secondhand God] 





experiences do you have any conviction arising from those experiences 
which either discards or must assume an a priori greater intellect than 
the intellect of man?” The answer was swift and positive. Experience 
had clearly demonstrated an a priori anticipatory and only intellectual- 
ly apprehendable orderliness of interactive principles operating in the 
universe into which we are born. These principles are discovered but 
are never invented by man. | said to myself, “I have faith in the 
integrity of the anticipatory intellectual wisdom which we may call 
*‘God.’" My next question was, “Do | know best or does God know 
best whether | may be of any value to the integrity of universe?” 

The answer was, “You don’t know and no man knows, but the 


faith you have just established out of experience imposes recognition 


of the a priori wisdom of the fact of your being.” Apparently addres- 
sing myself, | said, “You do not have the right to eliminate yourself, 
you do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The signifi 


cance of you will forever remain obscure to you, but you may assume 
that you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to convert- 


ing all your experience to highest advantage of others. You and all 
men are here for the sake of other men.” 


WDSD Document 1 


World society has throughout its millions of years on earth made its 
judgements upon visible, tangible, sensorially demonstrable criteria. 


We may safely say that the world is keeping its eye on the unimportant 


visible 1 percent of the historical transformation while missing the 
significance of the 99 percent of overall, unseen changes. Forms are 
inherently visible and forms no longer can “follow functions” because 
the significant functions are invisible .. . . 


There are very few men today who are disciplined to comprehend the 


totally integrating significance of the 99 percent invisible activity which 


is coalescing to reshape our future. There are approximately no 
warnings being given to society regarding the great changes ahead. 
There is only the ominous general apprehension that man may be 
about to annihilate himself. To the few who are disciplined to deal 
with the invisibly integrating trends it is increasingly readable in the 
trends that man is about to become almost 100 percent successful 
as an occupant of universe. 


This phantom captain has neither weight nor sensorial tangibility, 
as has often been scientifically proven by careful weighing opera- 
tions at the moment of abandonment of the ship by the phantom 
captain, i.e., at the instant of “death.” He may be likened to the 
variant of polarity dominance in our bipolar electric world which, 
when balanced and unit, vanishes as abstract unity | or O. With the 
phantom captain's departure, the mechanism becomes inoperative 
and very quickly disintegrates into basic chemical elements. 


This captain has not only an infinite self-identity characteristic but, 
also, an infinite understanding. He has furthermore, infinite sympa- 
thy with all captains of mechanisms similar to his . . . . 


An illuminating rationalization indicated that captains — being 
phantom, abstract, infinite, and bound to other captains by a bond 
of understanding as proven by their recognition of each other’s sig- 
nals and the meaning thereof by reference to a common direction 
(toward “perfect”) — are not only all related, but are one and the 
same captain. Mathematically, since characteristics of unity exist, 
they cannot be non-identical. 








Our Air Force Redomes were installed in the arctic mostly by eskimos 
and others who had never seen them before. The mass production 
technology made assembly possible at an average rate of 14 hours 
each. One of these radomes was loaned by the U.S. Air Force to the 
Museum of Modern Art in New York City for an exhibition of my work 
in 1959-1960, It took regular building trades skilled labor one month 
to assemble the dome in New York City. 


WDSD Document 2 


| define ‘synergy’ as follows: Synergy is the unique behavior of 
whole systems, unpredicted by behavior of their respective subsys- 
tems’ events. 

{Ideas and Integrities] 


selfishness (self-preoccupation pursued until self loses its way and self 
generates fear and spontaneous random surging, i.e., panic, the plural 
of which is mob outburst in unpremeditated wave synchronization of 
the individually random components). 

[No More Secondhand God] 








To start off with it is demonstrated in the array of events which we 
have touched on that we don't have to “earn a living” anymore 
The “living” has all been earned for us forever. Industrialization’s 
wealth is cumulative in contradistinction to the inherently terminal, 
discontinuous, temporary wealth of the craft eras of civilization such 
as the Bronze Age or Stone Age, If we only understood how that 
cumulative industrial wealth has come about, we could stop playing 
obsolete games, but that is a task that cannot be accomplished by 
political and social reforms. Man is so deeply conditioned in his 
reflexes by his millenniums of slave function that he has too many 
inferiority complexes to yield to political reformation. The obsolete 
games will be abandoned only when realistic, happier and more 
interesting games come along to displace the obsolete games. 
[WDSD Document 3] 


Tension and Compression are complementary functions of structure. 
Therefore as functions they only co-exist. When pulling a tensional 
rope its girth contracts in compression. When we load a column in 
compression its girth tends to expand in tension. When we investi- 
gate tension and compression, we find that compression members, 
as you all know as architects, have very limited lengths in relation to 
their cross sections. They get too long and too slender and will 
readily break. Tension members, when you pull them tend to pull, 
approximately, (almost but never entirely), straight instead of trying 
to curve more and more as do too thin compressionally loaded 
columns. The contraction of the tension members in their girth, 
when tensionally loaded, brings its atoms closer together which 
makes it even stronger. There is no limit ratio of cross section to 
length in tensional members of structural systems. There is a 
fundamental limit ratio in compression. Therefore when nature has 
very large tasks to do, such as cohering the solar system or the 
universe she arranges her structural systems both in the microcosm 
and macrocosm in the following manner. Nature has compression 
operating in little remotely positioned islands, as high energy con- 
centrations, such as the earth and other planets, in the macrocosm; 
or as islanded electrons, or protons or other atomic nuclear compo- 
nents in the microcosm while cohering the whole universal system, 
both macro and micro, of mutually remote, compressional, and oft 
non-simultaneous, islands by comprehensive tension; -compression 
islands in a non-simultaneous universe of tension. The Universe is 
a tensegrity. 

[WDSD Document 2] 


| was born cross-eyed. Not until | was four years old was it 
discovered that this was caused by my being abnormally farsighted. 
My vision was thereafter fully corrected with lenses. Until four | 
could see only large patterns, houses, trees, outlines of people with 
blurred coloring, While | saw two dark areas on human faces, | did 
not see a human eye or a teardrop or a human hair until | was four. 
Despite my new ability to apprehend details, my childhood’s spon- 
taneous dependence only upon big pattern clues has persisted. .. . 


| am convinced that neither | nor any other human, past or present, 
was or is a genius. | am convinced that what | have every physically 
normal child also has at birth. We could, of course, hypothesize 
that all babies are born geniuses and get swiftly de-geniused. 
Unfavorable circumstances, shortsightedness, frayed nervous 
systems, and ignorantly articulated love and fear of elders tend to 
shut off many of the child’s brain capability valves. | as lucky in 
avoiding to many disconnects. 


There is luck in everything. My luck is that | was born cross-eyed, 
was ejected so frequently from the establishment that | was finally 
forced either to perish or to employ some of those faculties with 
which we are all endowed-the use of which circumstances had 
previously so frustrated as to have to put them in the deep freezer, 
whence only to hellishly hot situations could provide enough heat to 
melt them back into usability. 

{WDSD Document §] 


In the 1920's with but little open country highway mileage in opera- 
tion, automobile accidents were concentrated and frequently 
occurred within our urban and suburban presence. Witnessing a 
number of accidents, | observed that warning signs later grew up 
along the roads leading to danger points and that more traffic and 
motorcycle police were put on duty. The authorities tried to cure 
the malady by reforming the motorists. A relatively few special 
individual drivers with much experience, steady temperament, good 
coordination and natural tendency to anticipate and understand the 
psychology of others emerged as “good” and approximately 
accident-free drivers. Many others were accident prone. 


In lieu of the after-the-fact curative reform, trending to highly spe- 
cialized individual offender case histories, my philosophy urged the 
anticipatory avoidance of the accident potentials through invention 
of generalized highway dividers, grade separaters, clover leafing 
and adequately banked curves and automatic traffic control 
stop-lighting systems. | saw no reason why the problem shouldn't 
be solved by preventative design rather than attempted reforms. 
My resolve: Reshape environment; don't try to reshape man. 


[WDSD Document 1] 





WATER RE- 
COVERY UNIT 


Drinking 
water 


Clean wash 
water 


WATER RE- 
COVERY UNIT 


CLOSED ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM 


WATER AND AIR RECIRCULATION SYSTEM 
snnenees: Cabin air 
water 
CATALYTIC 
BURNER 
. 


1 
Cabin air ; 


Clean 
DEHUMIDIFIER }.....j CARBON DIOXIDE 
[ DEHUMIDIFIER pemend eT RATOR 





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METABOLIC REQUIREMENTS & RESULTANT WASTES IN POUNDS 


| TOTAL INPUT | 


Oxygen = 2.2 lbs. 


Food = 1.3 lbs. 
(Dehydrated) 


FOR A 160 1b. MAN 


t TOTAL ourepT 


Total CO, 
= 4,2 lbs. 


COz = 0.2 Ibs. 


Waste Ny & NaCl 
incin~ etc. = 
eration > 0 lbs. 
process 


H,0 = 0.1 lbs. 


Oxygen for incin- 
eration = 0.75 lbs. 


Breathing Exhaled CO, 


= 2.4 lbs. 


ULiiother wastes 

i = >0 ibs. 

|| LLL 
Excreted 


mn solids = 
| 0.18 lbs. 


Excreated 
H,0 = 5.8 lbs 


process 
produces 


Drinking & 
eating = 
5.0 lbs. 


saa ceeoenaenerecenasnensennnenanne. 


Feces etc. 
= 0.4 lb 


2.2 lbs. 


Water = 7.0 lbs. 


Sources: (1) E. S. Mills, R. L. Butterton, Douglas Missile & space Systems 





Development Interplanetary Mission Life Support System, 1965. 


(2) NASA: ASD Report TR 61-363. 





WDSD Document 6 


HUMAN DAILY METABOLIC TURNOVER 


Oxygen 
24.1% 
862 gms, 


Food 14, 6% 


Grams 
Proteins = 80 
Carbohydrates = 270 
Fats = 150 


Other solids system 


quotient 
of 
0,82 | 
Trnyye: 
INPUT = 1002 2830 
3585 gms. Calories 






arbon 

Dioxide (CO,) 
27.4% 982 gms. 
ee erie 


Water 

& minerals = 23 l (H,0) 
— 70.9 % 

2542 gms. 


Metabolic 9, 5%) 


OUTPUT = 100% 
3585 gms. 





The Honeywell edition of Fuller's world map (more brightly 
colored than previous editions) is available. 


$4.65 po™paid 


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Ct 9, Illinois 62901 
However, 


man unconcernedly sorting mail on an express train 
with unuttered faith that 
the engineer is competent, 
that the switchmen are not asleep, 
that the track walkers are doing their job, 
that the technologists 
who designed the train and the rails 
knew their stuff, 
that the thousands of others 
whom he may never know by face or name 
are collecting tariffs, 
paying for repairs, 
and so handling assets 
that he will be paid a week from today 
and again the week after that, 
and that all the time 
his family is safe and in well being 
without his personal protection 
constitutes a whole new era of evolution- 
the first really ‘new” 
since the beginning of the spoken word. 
In fact, out of the understanding 
innate in the spoken word 
was Industrialization wrought 
after millenniums 
of seemingly whitherless spade work. 
[The Unfinished Epic of Industrialization] 


The Unfinished Epic of Industrialization 


E ‘aster Fuller 1963; 227 pp 
. rom World Resources Inventory 
ES 4, Carbondale, Illinois 62901 


Concept Twelve - SELF DISCIPLINES 
Working assumptions, cautions, encourage 
ments, and restrains of intuitive formulations 
and spontaneous actions. My own rule: “Do 
not mind if | am not understood as long as | am 
not misunderstood.” 


Personal Self Disciplining. In 1927 | gave up forever the 
general economic dictum of society, i.e. that every individ- 
ual who wants to survive must earn a living. | substituted, 
therefore, the finding made in concept one, i.e., an 
individual's antientropic responsibility in universe. | sought 
for the tasks that needed to be done that no one else was 
doing or attempting to do, which if done would physically 
and economically advantage society and eliminate pain. 


As a consequence, it was necessary for me to discipline 
my faculties to develop technical and scientific capabilities 
to invent the physical innovations and their service industry 
logistics. 


Mv Recommendations for a Curriculum of Design Science 


1. Synergetics 

2. General Systems Theory 

3. Theory of Games (Von Neuman) 
Solids: 4. Chemistry and Physics 
urea & 5. Topology, ProjectiveGeometry 
minerals 6. Cybernetics 
1.7% 7. Communications 
61 gms, 

8. Meteorology 

9. Geology 

10. Biology 

11. Sciences of Energy 


. Political Geography 
. Ergonomics 


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Source: Apogee, Douglas Missile & Space = 14. Production Engineering 
Publication No. 4, 1961. p. 8. 


The World Design Science Decade documents contain 
some that is in the other books and much that isn't. 
The 6 volume set costs $1 0.50 postpaid to students 
(formal and informal); $30.00 postpaid to others. 
This is a very good deal. 


We find that_original question asking is a consequence 
of interferences, whethter in the computer or the 
human brain. We find then that original questions are 
second derivative events in the computer lif.e 

[WDSD Document 2] 


[WDSD Document 5] 


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The will of history reads “for everybody or for nobody,” 
and since we balk at “for nobody” it has to be “for every- 
body”. And that's the way it is going, lickety-split and the 
world around. 

[WDSD Document 3] 





Cosmic View 


“The Universe in 40 Jumps” is the subtitle of 
the book. It delivers. 


The man who conceived and rendered it, a 
Dutch schoolmaster named Kees Boeke, gave 
years of work to perfecting the information in 
his pictures. The result is one of the simplest, 
most thorough, inescapable mind blows ever 
printed. Your mind and you advance in and out 
through the universe, changing scale by a fac- 
tor of ten. It very quickly becomes hard to 
breathe, and you realize how magnitude- 
bound we've been. 


I'm amazed this book isn't more commonly 
available. It's the best seller of The Whole 
Earth Truck Store. People get it for their 


friends. 
Cosmic View TOMS 
Kees Boeke Li Prt ah a 
1957; 48 pp. b ONY. 

c 
3.75 postpaid VW.) EARTH CATALOG 
Full Earth 


In November 1967 an ATS satellite whose funds phenome- 
nally had not been cut made a home movie. It was a time 
lapse film of the Earth rotating, shot from 23,000 miles 
above South America. (This is synchronous distance. The 
satellite orbits at the same speed the Earth turns, so it 
remains apparently stationary over one point of the equa- 
tor.) Color photographs of the Earth were transmitted by TV 
every 1/2 hour to make up a 24 hour sequence. The shots 


Earth photographs 


NASA SP.129 is a hell of a book. Two hundred forty-three 
full page color photographs of our planet from the Gemini 
flights of 1965. if it were a Sierra Club book, and it could 
be, it would cost $25. It costs $7. 


There are numerous discoveries in the book. One is that 
this beautiful place is scarcely inhabited at all. 


\ weand pheeograph of Catifarna’s Imperial Valles gis 


thr sea 


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COSMIC VIEW 


THE UNIVERSE IN 40 JUMPS 


a clear View of the Salto 
Sea. No agreement exits concerning the rauw of the ewe ween in the center of 


by KEES BOEKE 


were lap dissolved together to make the movie. You see 
darkness, then a crescent of dawn, than advancing daylight 
and immense weather patterns whorling and creeping on the 
spherical surface, then the full round mandala Earth of noon, 
then gibbous afternoon, crescent twilight, and darkness 
again. 


A 16mm 400-foot silent color print of the film includes several 
forms of the 24-hour cycle and close-up cropping of specific 
sectors as their weather develops through the day. 


The film (NR 68-713) costs 


$48.94 plus shipping 


An 8x10 color print of the full 
earth (68-HC-74) costs 


$5.64 postpaid 
fre 
By tion Pictures fr- ~ 
6 t NE C Arts Studio 
Ww mm, D.C, 20002 @ “eet, NW 
V on, D.C. 20001 


Color posters (22x27) of the full earth photographs may be ordered 
from the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG for 


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Earth Photographs from Gemini Ill, lV, and V. 


NASA 

1967; 266 pp. 

$7.00 postpaid 

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The World From Above 









Close-up glamor shots of the Earth. Mystery shots (What is that? 
What's our altitude above it, 10 feet or 10,0007) (Fold out captions tell 
all.) Good traffic flow pattern shots: surface anatomy of civilization. Not 
a bad compendium; it'll do until they reprint E.A. Gutkind’s Our World 
From the Air. 


The World From Above 


The World From Above 


from: 
Hanns Reich EE" anc! Weng, Inc. 
1966; 88 pictures 141 venue 

Ne N.Y. 10010 
$7.50 potpaia or 


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Surface Anatomy 


This books is included as a companion piece to the Earth 
picture books. The whole lovely system of the human 
creature, seen from without, surface by surface, is here. 
One of its main revelations is how cliché ridden our usual 
views of ourselves are — we are still not good with mirrors 
(satellites were up 10 years before we got a full view of 
the Earth). Posing friends and neighbors, with a simple 
light set-up and a 35mm camera, Joseph Royce has shot 
the most beautiful human album | know. 


It also teaches anatomy. 


Surface Anatomy 


Joseph Royce 
1965; 124 photographs 
and some diagrams 


$1 2.50 postpaid 


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Geology Illustrated sama pate aad 
A artist of aerial photography, Shelton uses some 400 of his 
finest photos to illuminate a discussion of the whole-earth 
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Sensitive Chaos 


Schwenk directs an institute in the 
Black Forest devoted to the study of the 
movements of water and air. Within the 
last few centuries, he says we have 
“lost touch with the spiritual nature of 
water.” As a result, we have attempted 
to control the fluids in ways contrary to 
their nature, and the results are evident 
in the problems of pollution, damage to 
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natural water sources. Schwenk 
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and theory, and shrewd observation 
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the weakest form of argument, this 
book is definitely not for you. On the 
other hand, Schwenk’s juxtaposition of 
similar forms in different flowing media 
may spark some exciting bisociations, if 
you are open to them. The section of 
88 pages of black and white photos at 
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seems to hover invisibly over the 
growth processes, even before the 
horns are actually there, for they 
proceed along this spiral path with 
mathematical exactitude in their 
annual growth. It is significant that 
the axes of the two spiraling horns 
meet either in the nose or the eyes 
or in their immediate vicinity, a fact 
which stresses the strong connection 
of the horns with sense perception 
and with the animal's sense of its 
surroundings. Furthermore, in 
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The question is: Is my thought changing? It is and it isn’t. 

One evening after dinner, | was telling friends that | was not concerned 
with improving the world. One of the m said: | thought you always 
were. | then explained that | believe - and am acting upon — Marshall 
McLuhan’s statement that we have through electronic technology 
produced an extension of our brains to the world formerly outside 

of us. To me that means that the disciplines, gradual and sudden 
(principally Oriental), formerly practiced by individuals to pacify 

their minds, bringing them into accord with ultimate reality, must 

now be practiced socially — that is, not just inside our heads, but out- 
side of them, in the world, where our central nervous system now is. 
This has brought it about that the work and thought of Buckminster 
Fuller is of prime importance to me. He more than any other to my 
knowledge sees the world situation-all of it-clearly and has fully 
reasoned projects for turning our attention away from “killingry” 
toward “livingry.” .. . 


Coming back to the notion that my thought is changing. Say it isn’t. 
One thing, however, that keeps it moving is that I'm continually 
finding new teachers with whom | study. | had studied with Richard 
Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, Daisetz Suzuki, Guy 
Nearing. Now I'm studying with N.O. Brown, Marshall McLuhan, 
Buckminster Fuller, Marcel Duchamp. In connection with my current 


studies with Duchamp, it turns out that I’m a poor chessplayer. My mind 


seems in some respect lacking, so that | make obviously stupid moves. 
| do not for a moment doubt that this lack of intelligence affects my 
music and thinking generally. However, | have a redeeming quality: 

| was gifted with a sunny disposition. 


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Everything we come across 1s to the 
point. Living umderground because 
there was no money. Arizona land and air 
permitted making mounds, covering them with 
Cement, excavating to produce rooms, 
providing these with skylights. For 
anyone approaching, the community was 
invisible. Cacti, desert plants: the 
land seemed undisturbed. Quantity 
(abundance) changes what's vice, 
what's virtue. Selfishness is out; 
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consciousness. “They think ‘world’... 
Theirs will be the most powerful and 
constructive revolution in all history.”} 
Lry. More we leave the land, the more 
productive it becomes. Technique for 
changing society: education followed by 
unemployment. Article by Avner Hovne on 
automation (Impact of Science on 
Society 15:1, Unesco publication). 
Continuity values giving way to flexibility 
values. Automation alters what's done and 
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He played two games, winning one, losing 
the other. He was continually himself, 
totally involved in each game, unmoved 
by the outcome of either. What's the 
nature of his teaching? For one 
thing: devotion ( practice gives evidence 
of it). For another: not just 
playing half the game but playing all of 
it (having a view that includes that of 
the opponent ). Suddenly a clam rose to 











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Sociometry and the Physical Sciences 

Prediction in Physics and the Social Sciences 

The Concept of Entropy in Landscape Evolution 
Geomorphology and General Systems Theory 

An Approach to the Conceptual Analysis of Scientific Crises 
A Survey of General Systems Theory 

The Set Theory of Mechanism and Homeostasis 

Constraint Analysis of Many-Dimensional Relations 

The Domain of Adaptive Systems: A Rudimentary Taxonomy 
Language Description of Concepts 

Some Simple Models of Arms Races 

The Problem of Systemic Organizations in Theoretical Biology 


The Conceptual Formulation and Mathematical Solution of Practical 
Problems in Population Input-Output Dynamics 


The Use of Mathematics and Computers to Determine Optimal Strategies 


for a Given Insect Pest Control Problem 
VOLUME X (1965) 


The Logic of Systems: An Introduction to a Formal Theory of Structure Mathematical Aspects of General Systems Theory 


The General System as a Methodological Too! Toward a Theory of Parts and Wholes: An Algebraic Approach 
Systems Theory from an Operations Research Point of View Meteorology and the Social Sciences: Further Comparisons 

Similar Problems in Meteorology and Psychology Methodological Problems of System Research 

The Architecture of Complexity Metaorganization of Information 

On the Emergence of Patterns of Order The Insect Corneal Nipple Array 

On the Stability of Brain-Like Structures The Wholeness of Living Systems and Some Basic Biological Problems 
Some Considerations on the Notion of Invariant Field in Linguistics On the Origin of Order in Behavior 

Toward a Unifying Theory of Cognition A Cognitive Approach to the Analysis of Cultures and Cultural Evolution 
Contributions to Stochastic Learning Theory The University Community System-Self-Regulated Bearer of Meaning 
Aspiration Levels and Utility Theory A Condensation of Warpeace Space 

Concession-Making in Experimental Conditions On Some General Categories of Linguistics 

Wheat on Kilimanjaro: The Perception of Choice Within Game and The Theory of Meta-Games 

Learning Model Frameworks The Mathematics of Meta-Games 

Models of Southern Kwakiutl Social Organization Benevolence in Game Theory 

A Field Theory of Social Action with Application to Conflict A Taxonomy of 2 x 2 Games 


VOLUME XI (1966 An Analysis of Duopoly Bargaining 
( ) Two Motivations for Defection in Prisoner's Dilemma Games 


Empirical Approaches to Game Theory and Bargaining: a Bibliography 


VOLUME XII (1967) 


GEnMERa SYSTEMS The Evolution of the Human Brain: Some Notes Toward a Synthesis 
Between Neural Structure and the Evolution of Complex Behavior 


nr ee et ery Organismic Sets; Outline of a General Theory of Biological and Social 
Organisms 


The Orderliness of Biological Systems 


Colony Development of a Polymorphic Hydroid as a Problem in Pattern 
Formation 


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A Geometric Model with Some Properties of Biological Systems 
The Regulation of Political Systems 


Types of Asymmetry in Social and Political Systems 

A Quantitative Approach to the Dynamics of Perception 

Some Psychological Aspects of Psychometry 

A Further Extension of General Systems Theory for Psychiatry 

A Dynamic Model of the Conflict Between Criminals and Society 
Some Comparisons Between Traffic Deaths and Suicide 

Crime Rate vs. Population Density in United States Cities: A Model 
Simulation of Socio-Economic Systems 


An Empirical Test of Five Assumptions in an Inter-National Simulation 
About National Political Systems 








Synthesis of Form 





































Christopher Alexander is a design person 
that other people refer to a lot. This book 
deals with the nature of current design 
problems that are expanding clear beyond 
any individual's ability to know and correlate 
all the factors. The methodology presented 
here is one of analysis of a problem for 
mistits and synthesis of form (via computer- 
translatable nets and hierarchies) for 
minimum misfits. 


Indeed, not only is the man who lives in the form the 
one who made it, but there is a special closeness 

of contact between man and form which leads to con- 
stant rearrangement of unsatisfactory detail, 

constant improvement. The man, already responsible 
for the original shaping of the form, is also alive to its 
demands while he inhabits it. Any anything which 
needs to be changed is changed at once. 


A subsystem, roughly speaking, is one of the obvious 
components of the system, like the parts shown with a 
circle round them. If we try to adjust a set of variables 
which does not constitute a subsystem, the repercus- 
sions of the adjustment affect others outside the set 
because the set is not sufficiently independent. The 


(From the table of contents) 
2.Goodness of Fi 15 


3.The Source of Good Fit 28 procedure of the unselfconscious system is so 
4.The Unselfconscious Process 46 
5.The Selfconscious Process5 55 


But if we think of the requirements from a negative 
point of view, as potential misfits, there is a simple 
way of picking a finite set. This is because it is 
through misfit that the problem originally brings 
itself to our attention. We take just those relations 
between form and context which obtrude most 
strongly, which demand attention most clearly, 
which seem most likely to go wrong. We cannot 
do better than this. If there were some intrinsic 
way of reducing the list of requirements to a few, 
this would mean in essence that we were in pos 
session of a field description of the context: if 
this were so, the problem of creating fit would 
become trivial, and no longer problem of design. 
We cannot have a unitary or field description of a 
context and still have a design problem worth 
attention. 


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On Growth and Form 


Fig 14). (a) Herpinin plumone Kr., (6) Sregocephalus influres Kr. : 
(ce) Hyperia puiba 

A paradigm classic. Everyone dealing with 
growth or form in any manner can use the book. 
We've seen worn copies on the shelves of 
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When Plateau made the wire framework of a regular 
tetrahedron and dipped it in soap-solution, he 
obtained in an instant a beautifully symmetrical system 
of six films, meeting three by three in four edges and 
those four edges running from the corners of the figure 
to its centre of symmetry. Here they meet, two by two, 
at the Maraldi angle; and the films meet three by three, 
to form the re-entrant solid angle which we have called 
a ‘Miraldi pyramid’ in our account of the architecture 
of the honeycomb. 

The very same configuration is easily recognized in the 
minute siliceous skeleton of Callimitra. There 

are two discrepancies, neither of which need raise any 
difficulty. The figure is not rectilinear but a spherical 
tetrahedron, such as might be formed by the boundary 
edges of a tetrahedral cluster of four co-equal bub- 
bles; and just as Plateau extended his experiment by 
blowing a small bubble in the centre of his tetrahedral 
system, so we have a central bubble also here. 

This bubble may be of any size; but its situation (if 

it be present at all) is always the same, and its shape 
is always such as to give the Maraldi angles at its own 
four corners. The tension of its own walls, and those 
of the films by which it is supported or slung, all bal- 
ance one another. Hence the bubble appears in plane 
projection as a curvilinear equilateral triangle; and we 
have only got to convert this plane 

diagram into the corresponding solid to obtain the 
spherical tetrahedron we have been seeking to explain 
(Fig. 63). 


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The geometry of the little inner tetrahedron is not less simple 
and elegant. Its six edges and four faces are ali equal. The films 
attaching it to the outer skeleton are all planes. Its faces are spherical, 


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The engineer, who had been busy design- 
ing a new and powerful crane, saw ina 
moment that the arrangement of the bony 
trabeculae was nothing more nor less than 
a diagram of the lines of stress, or direc- 
tions of tension and compression, in the 
loaded structure; in short, that Nature was 
strengthening the bone in precisely the 
manner and direction in which strength was 
required; and he is said to have cried out, 
‘That's my crane!’ 





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and each has its centre in the opposite corner. The edges are circular 
ares, wilh cosine 4; cach is in a plane perpendicular to the chord of 
the arc opposite, and each hus its centre in the middle of that chord. 


Along cach edge the two intersecting spheres meet cach other at an 


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Fig. 101. Crane-head and femar 





The greatest clue to the inner structure of any dynamic 
process lies in its reaction to change. 


The Mousgoum cannot afford, as we do, to regard main- 
tenance as a nuisance which is best forgotten until it is 
time to call the local plumber. It is in the same hands as 
the building operation itself, and its exigencies are as 
likely to shape the form as those 

of the initial construction. 


The selfconscious individual's grasp of problems is con- 
stantly misled. His concepts and categories, besides 
being arbitrary and unsuitable, are self-perpetuating, 
Under the influence of concepts, he not only does things 
from a biased point of view. but sees them biasedly as 
well. The concepts control his perception of fit and mis- 
fit — until in the end he sees nothing but deviations from 
his conceptual dogmas, and loses not only the urge but 
even the mental opportunity to frame his problems more 
appropriately. 


The solution of a design problem is really only another 
effort to find a unified description. The search for 
realization through constructive diagrams is an effort 
to understand the required form so fully that there is 
no longer a rift between its functional specification 
and the shape it takes. 


Two misfits are seen to interact only because, in some 
sense at least, they deal with the same kind of physi- 
cal consideration... . 

It is such a physical center of implication, if | may call 
it that, which the designer finds it easy to grasp. 
Because it refers to a distinguishable physical proper- 
ty or entity, it can be expressed diagrammatically and 
provides a possible non-verbal point of entry into the 
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Jung in capsules and tasting like medicine. 


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The man who would learn the human mind will gain almost nothing 

from experimental psychology. Far better for him to put away his aca- 
demic gown, to say good-bye to the study, and to wander with human 
heart throughout the world. There, in the horrors of the prison, the asylum, 
and the hospital, in the drinking-shops, brothels, and gambling hells, in 
the salons of the elegant, in the exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, 
religious revivals, and sectarian ecstasies, through love and hate, through 
the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap 
richer store of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him. 
The would he know to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the 

human soul, 


A neurosis has really come to an end when it has overcome the wrongly 
ego. The neurosis itself is not healed; it heals us. The man is ill, 

but the illness is an attempt of nature to heal him. We can therefore 
learn a great deal for the good of our health from the illness itself, and 
that which appears to the neurotic person as absolutely to be rejected 
is just the part which contains the true gold which we should otherwise 
never have found. 


The secret of the earth is not a joke and not a paradox. We need only 
see how in American the skull- and hip-measurements of all European 
races become Indianized in the second generation. That is the secret 
of the American soil. And every soil has its secret, of which we carry 
an unconscience image in our souls: a relationship of spirit to body and 
of body to earth. 


The greater the contrast, the great the potential. Great energy only 
comes from a correspondingly great tension between opposites. 


No one develops his personality because someone told him it would be 
useful or advisable for him to do so. Nature has never yet allowed her- 
self to be imposed upon by well-meaning advice. Only coercion working 
through casual connections moves nature, and human nature also. 
Nothing changes itself without need, and human personality least of 

all. It is immensely conservative, not to say inert. Only the sharpest 
need is able to rouse it. The development of personality obeys no wish, 
no command, and no insight, but only need; it wants the motivating co- 
ercion of inner or outer necessities. Any other development would be 
individualism. This is why the accusation of individualism is a cheap 
insult when it is raised against the natural development of personality. 


It is naturally a fundamental error to believe that if we see an anti- 
value in a value, or an untruth in a truth, the value or the truth is 

then invalid. They have only become relative. Everything human 

is relative, because everything depends upon an inner polarity, for 
everything is a phenomenon of energy. And energy itself necessarily 
depends on a previous polarity without which there can be no energy. 
There must always be high and low, hot and cold, etc., so that the 
process of adjustment which is energy, can occur. The tendency to 
deny all previous values in favour of their opposites is therefore just 
as exaggerated as the former one-sidedness. Where generally accep- 
ted and undoubted values are suddenly thrown away, there is a fatal 
loss. Whoever acts in this way ends by throwing himself overboard 
with the discarded values. 


The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us are not elemental happenings 
of a physical or biological kind, but are psychic events. We are threat- 
ened in a fearful way by wars and revolutions that are nothing else than 
psychic epidemics. At any moment a few million people may be seized 
by a madness, and then we have another world war or devastating rev- 
olution. Instead of being exposed to wild beasts, tumbling rocks and 
inundating waters, man is exposed today to the elemental forces of his 
own psyche. Psychic life is a world-power that exceeds by many times 
all the powers of the earth. The Enlightenment, which stripped nature 
and human institutions of goods, overlooked the one god of fear who 
dwells in the psyche. Fear of God is in place, if anywhere, before the 
domination power of psychic life. 


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A proper sequal to his Cybernetics (see p. 32), this book is 
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It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood 
through a study of the messages and the communication facilities 
which belong to it; and that in the future development of these mes- 
sages and communication facilities, messages between man and ma- 
chine and between machine and machine, are destined to play an 
ever-increasing part. 


Messages are themselves a form of pattern and organization. Indeed, 
it is possible to treat sets of messages as having an entropy like sets 
of states of the external world. Just as entropy is a measure of dis- 
organization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure 
of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information car- 
ried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the 
negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the 
message, the less information it gives. Clichés, for example, are less 
illuminating than great poems. 


| believe that Ashby’s brilliant idea of the unpurposeful random 
mechanism which seeks for its own purpose through a process of 
learning is not only one of the great philosophical contributions of 
the present day, but will lead to highly useful technical developments 
the task of automatization. Not only can we build purpose into 
machines, but in an overwhelming majority of cases a machine 
designed to avoid certain pitfalls of breakdown will look for purposes 
which it can fulfill. 


We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate them- 
selves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message. 


It is illuminating to know that the sort of phenomenon which is 
recorded subjectively as emotion may not be merely a useless epi- 
phenomenon of nervous action, but may control some essential 
stage in learning, and in other similar processes. 


It is the great public which is demanding the utmost of secrecy for 
modern science in all things which may touch its military uses. 
This demand for secrecy is scarcely more than the wish of a sick 
civilization not to learn the progress of its own disease. 





No doubt it is a great nuisance that mankind is not uniform 

but compounded of individuals whose psychic structure 

them over a span of at least ten thousand years. Hence 

is absolutely no truth that does not spell salvation to one 

and damnation to another, All universalisms get stuck in 
terrible dilemma. 








The Ghost in the Machine 





Koestler's latest book seems to be sharing the fate of Norman 
O. Brown's Love’s Body: the book after the big influential 

one (Act of Creation, Life Against Death) is considered too 
far out, fragmented, excessive .. . and sells half-heartedly. 





Nevermind. Koestler here is doing useful dirty work: savaging 
rat psychology, exploring broader implications of bio- 

logical systems research, and foreseeing our imminent de- 
mise unless we organize our brain-use better. Which brings 
him to drugs. He proposes research to find a chemical which 
will voluntarily disengage old-brain from new-brain—the inte- 
rior emotional kill-heavy unreprogrammable stuff from exte- 
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this best with a live audience, but this book is a fine collect- 
jon of the information he uses. 


Here is most of the now-basic methodology of future study— 
multi-fold trends, surprise-free projections, scenarios, etc. 
And here are their results. It’s the best future-book of the 
several that are out. 


In my opinion, it is not particularly an accurate picture of 

the future but the most thorough picture we have of the 
present—the present statistics, present fantasies, present ex- 
pectations that we’re planning with. We are what we think 
our future is. 


\f computer capacities were to continue to increase by a factor of ten 
every two or three years until the end of the century (a factor between 
a hundred billion and ten quadrillion), then all current concepts about 
computer limitations will have to be reconsidered. Even if the trend 
continues for only the next decade or two, the improvements over 
current computers would be factors of thousands to millions. If we 
add the likely enormous improvements in input-output devices, pro- 
gramming and problem formulation, and better understanding of the 
basic phenomena being studied, manipulated, or simulated, these esti 
mates of improvement may be wildly conservative. And even if the 
rate of change slows down by several factors, there would still be room 
in the next thirty-three years for an overall improvement of some five 
to ten orders of magnitude. Therefore, it is necessary to be skeptical 
of any sweeping but often meaningless or nonrigourous statements such 
as “a computer is limited by the designer—it cannot create anything he 
does not put in,” or that “a computer cannot be truly creative or 
original,” By the year 2000, computers are likely to match, simulate, 

or surpass some of man’s most “human-like” intellectual abilities, 
including perhaps some of his aesthetic and creative capacities, in ad- 
dition to having some new kinds of capabilities that human beings do 
not have. These computer capacities are not certain; however, it is an 
open question what inherent limitations computers have. If it turns 

out that they cannot duplicate or exceed certain characteristically 


human capabilities, that will be one of the most important discoveries of the 


twentieth century. 


from: 
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The Year 2000 
Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener 


1967; 431 pp. Ri Burlington County 
N xy 08075 
$9.95 postpaid or 


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ESCAPE FROM SPECIALIZATION 


There is now strong evidence in favour of the theory, proposed by 
Garstang as far back as 1928, that the chordates—and thus, we, the 
verebrates —are descended from the !arval stage of some primitive 
echinoderm, perhaps rather like the sea-urchin or sea cucumber 
(echinoderm = ‘prickly-skinned’). Now an adult sea cucumber 

would not be a very inspiring ancestor—tit is a sluggish creature which 
looks like an ill-stuffed sausage with leathery skin, lying on the sea 
bottom. But its free-floating larva is a much more promising proposi 
tion: unlike the adult sea cucumber, the larva has bilateral sym- 

metry like a fish; it has a ciliary band—a forerunner of the nervous 
system—and some other sophisticated features not found In the 

adult animal. We must assume that the sedentary adult residing on the 
sea bottom had to rely on mobile larvae to spread the species far 

and wide in the ocean, as plants scatter their seeds in the wind; that the 
larvae, which had to fend for themselves, exposed to much strong- 

er selective pressures than the adults, gradually became more fish- 
like; and that eventually they became sexually mature while still in 

the free-swimming, larval state—thus giving rise to a new type of ani- 
mal which never settled on the bottom at all, and altogether elim- 
inated the senile, sedentary cucumber stage from its life history. 


This speeding up of sexual maturation relative to the development 
of the rest of the body—or, to put it differently, the gradual retard- 
ation of bodily development beyond the age of sexual maturation— 
is a familiar evolutionary phenomenon, known as neoteny. Its 
result is that the animal begins to breed while still displaying larval 
or juvenile features; and it frequently happens that the fully adult 
stage is never reached—it is dropped off the life cycle. 


This tendency towards a ‘prolonged childhood’, with the correspond- 
ing squeezing out of the final adult stages, amounts to a rejuvenation 
and de-specialization of the race—an escape from the cul-de-sac in the 
evolutionary maze. As J.Z. Young wrote, adopting Garstang’s views: 
‘The problem which remains is in fact not “how have vertebrates been 
formed from sea squirts?” but “how have vertebrates eliminated the 
(adult) sea squirt stage from their life history?” It is wholly reasonable 
to consider that this has been accomplished by paedomorphosis.’ . . . 


Neoteny in itself is of course not enough to produce these evolution- 
ary bursts of adaptive radiations. The ‘rejuvenation’ of the race merely 
provides the opportunity for evolutionary changes to operate on the 
early, malleable phases of ontogeny: hance paedomorphosis, ‘the 
shaping of the young’. In contrast to it, gerontomorphosis (geras = 
old age) is the modification of fully adult structures which are highly 
specialized. This sounds like a rather technical distinction, but it is 
in fact of vital importance. Gerontomorphosis cannot lead to radical 
changes and new departures; it can only carry an already specialized 
evolutionary line one more step further in the same direction—as a 
rule into the dead end of the maze... - 


DRAW BACK TO LEAP 


It seems that this retracing of steps to escape the dead ends of the 
maze was repeated at each decisive evolutionary turning point. | 
have mentioned the evolution of the vertebrates from a larval form 

of some primitive echinoderm. Insects have in all likelihood emerged 
from a millipede-like ancestor—not, however, from adult millipedes, 
whose structure is too specialized, but from its larval forms. The 
conquest of the dry land was initiated by amphibians whose ancestry 
goes back to the most primitive type of lung-breathing fish; whereas 
the apparently more successful later lines of highly specialized gill- 
breathing fishes all came to a dead end. The same story was repeated 
at the next major step, the reptiles, who derived from early, primitive 
amphibians—not from any of the later forms that we know. 


And lastly, we come to the most striking case of paedomorphosis, 
the evolution of our own species. It is not generally recognized that 
the human adult resembles more the embryo of an ape rather than an 
adult one. 





THE Year 2000 


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TABLE IX 


The Postindustrial (or Post-Mass Consumption) Society 


1. Per capita income about fifty times the preandustrial 


2. Most “economic” activities are tertiary and quaternary (service-oriented }, 


rather than primary or secondary ( production-oriented | 


3. Business firms no longer the major source of innovation 

4. There may be more “consentives” (vs. “marketives”’) 

5. Effective floor on income and welfare 

6. Efficiency no longer primary 

7. Market plays diminished role compared to public sector and “social 
accounts” 
Widespread “cybernation™ 
“Small world” 


to. Typical “doubling ume’ between three and thirty years 
11. Learning society 


12. Rapid improvement in educational institutions and techniques 
13. Erosion fin middle class) of work-oriented. achievement-oriented. ad- 


yancement-orrented values 
14. Erosion of “national interest” values 


1s. Sensate, secular, humanist, perhaps self-indulgent criteria become central 


Figure 10 is from Garstang's original paper, and is meant to represent 
the process of evolution by paedomorphosis. Z to Z9 is the progres 
sion of zygotes (fertilized eqgs) along the evolutionary ladder; A to AQ 
represents the adult forms resulting from each zygote. Thus the black 
line from Z4 to A4, for instance, represents ontogeny, the transforma 
tionof egg into adult; the dotted line fram A to AQ represents phyloge 
ny—the evolution of higher forms. But note that the thin lines of 
evolutionary progress to not lead directly from, say, A4 to AS—that 
would be gerontomorphosis, the evolutionary transformation of an 
adult form. The line of progress branches off from the unfinished 
embryonic stage of A4, This represents a kind of evolutionary retreat 
from the finished product, and a new departure toward the evolution- 
ary novelty Z5-A5. A4 could be the adult sea cucumber: then the 
branching-off point on the line A4-Z4 would be its larva; or A8 could 
be the adult primate ancestor of man, and the branching-off point its 
embryo—which is so much more like the A9Q—ourselves. 


FIGURE I0 





(after Garstang); see text 


But Garstang’s diagram could also represent a fundamental! aspect of 
the evolution of ideas, 


The revolutions in the history of science are successful escapes from 
blind alleys. The evolution of knowledge is continuous only during 
those periods of consolidation and elaboration which follow a major 
break-through. Sooner or later, however, consolidation leads to in- 
creasing rigidity, orthodoxy, and so into the dead end of overspecializa- 
tion—to the koala bear. Eventually there is a crisis and a new 
‘break-through’ of the blind alley—followed by another period of 
consolidation, a new orthodoxy and so the cycle starts again. 


But the theoretical structure which emerges from the break-through 
is not built on top of the previous ediface; it branches out from the 
point where progress has gone wrong. The great revolutionary 
turns in the evolution of ideas have a decidedly paedomorphic 
character. Each zygote in the diagram would represent a seminal 
idea, the seed out of which a new theory develops until it reaches 
adult, fully matured stage. One might call this the ontogeny of a 
theory. The history of science is a series of such ontogenies, True, 
novelties are not derived directly from a previous adult theory, but 
from a new seminal idea—not from the sedentary sea urchin but from 
its mobile larva. Only in the quiet periods of consolidation do we 


find gerontomorphosis—small improvements added to a fully grown estab- 


lished theory. . . . 


At first sight the analogy may appear far-fetched; | shall try to show 
that it has a solid factual basis. Biological evolution is to a large ex- 
tent a history of escapees from the blind alleys of overspecialization 
the evolution of ideas a series of escapes from the bondage of mental 
habit; and the escape mechanism in both cases is based on the prin- 
ciple of undoing and re-doing, the draw-back-to-leap pattern. 


The Futurist 


In part because the Future is a new field of methodic study, 
this is a lively newsletter. It reports bi-monthly on new books 
books and programs having anything to do with social fore- 
casting. Future study is like education: everybody thinks 
they're good at it. The newsletter has some of that diluted 
flavor, but it doesn’t matter. Useful pointing at useful 
activities done here. 


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The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller 


The most graphic of Fuller's books (it's about his work, by 
Robert Marks). Consequently it is the most directly useful if you 
are picking up on specific projects of his such as domes, geom- 
etry, cars, demographic maps and charts, etc. 





The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller 
Robert W. Marks 

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1960; 232 pp. pg 


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Fuller Sun Dome 


The most readily available plans for a geodesic dome are 
these. The $5 cost includes construction license. Built of 
wood strips and cheap polyethlene skin, the dome can be 
built up to 30 feet diameter. 

For more elaborate plans you should correspond with 


Fuller's office, Box 909, Carbondale, Illinois. 
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This is a big fat reference book on domes, trusses, cable nets, 
forms that will keep the rain out in a big way, or elegantly hold 
water or electric lines up in the air. The book resulted from 
the International Conference on Space Structures held in 
London in 1966. It’s said to be the first comprehensive book 
book of its kind. Very heavy book; it'll either help you or 
discourage you, depending on how far into construction you 
are. 


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it we'll drop the book. 


Space Structures 
R.M. Davies, ed. 
1967; 1233 pp. 


$46.50 postpaid 


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The only pavillon of Expo 67 more beautiful Soe Sse 
that Fuller's U.S. Dome was the West : 

German tent, designed by Frei Otto. He is 
currently the master of structures whose 
flexible skin is the prime structural element. 
Volume One of his 2-Volume work is devoted 
to Pneumatic Structures — air houses plus. 
Every designer we know who's seen this 
book has commenced to giggle and point, 
jump up and down, and launch into enthusi- 
astic endorsement of Otto, design, being a 
designer, and look at this here. 

The book is comprehensive in its field, tech- 





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Tensile Structures Volume One 


Pneumatic Structures 
Frei Otto 


~ 1967; 320 pp. 
1660 illustrations 


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area than the outside, which is not a saddie surface. 

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rotatable cap. 
D Guide-vane annulus to adjust position of cap. - 
E Heat exchange in air-conditioning tower. H Heating and cooling plant. N Used air extraction, 
In winter, the used air heats the fresh air ina | Humidifier Oo Pressure regulation valve. 
counter-flow arrangement. K Ring main. P Exhaust discharge. 
F Blower S Underground distribution line serves also to heat ground. Q Air lock accessible to trucks. 
G Air baffles. M Warm air discharge 


Dome Cookbook 


Drop City, Colorado, a rural vacant lot full of 
elegant funky domes and ditto people, has 
been well photographed and poorly reported 

in national magazines. Visitors and readers 
simply assumed that the domes were geodesic 
Fuller domes, which some indeed are. But 
most of them were designed by another guy 
who designed to another geometry: Steve Baer. 


This tabloid contains the crystallographic 
theory and junkyard practice behind Baer’s 
domes: from how to distort a polyhedron 
without affecting connector angles to how to 
chop the top out of a car without losing your 
foot. From all we can determine, Baer's 
theory is unique in architecture. So is his 
practice; instead of dying of dissertation dry 
rot, his notions stand around in the world 
bugging the citizens. 


The Dome Cookbook is published by Lama 
Foundation, an intentional community in 
New Mexico, built largely of Baer domes. 


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‘The Future as a Way of Life’ e 
Alvin Toffler “ ~ 
‘Education for Real’ 
John McHale 
‘The Prospect for Humanity’ - 1 
R. Buckminster Fuller ' 
‘Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only t oy & 
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Are we working at a new society= load sharing 
intelligently put together, one that will 
someday reveal the load bearing pillars of 


When you are putting up a dome panel by panel you 
often have to use poles to support the wobbly sides 
as they close in toward the center. When we were 
putting up the second to last panel in the shop dome 
we had three poles in strategic spots to hold the wob- 
bly overhanging panels from collapsing. The poles 
were nailed at the top so they wouldn’t fall away if 
during a moment's strain the load were lifted up and 
off of them. The panel was an 8’ x 19" and extrem- 
ely heavy. We put it up with an inadequate crew, 
two men and two women. We struggled for an en- 
tire afternoon the last few inches Albert Maher 
pushed from on top of a spool resting on top of 

the cab of his pickup which we had driven into the 
dome. It was touch and go a clamp might slip, 
Albert might collapse, the poles might buckle, Each 
one of many failures seemed equally as probable as 
getting the monster joined to the neighboring panels. 
A huge shove, some quick work with the crow bar 
and clamps — Albert eased off and it still held, | took 
a few more turns on one clamp and added another 
one — it was a sure thing, we had it in place! 

It felt as if the panel had been lifted into place by 
some incredible wave we had created that now 
washed back as we put down tools and Albert got 
down off the cab. But there was one last thing to 
check — the poles, were they dangerously bowed 
under this new load. The entire sensation in my 
head began for a moment to turn inside out when 


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A student of this structure, who does not know how 
it is created, will come to the conclusion that this 
“molecule” is built of two kinds of “atoms”, one 
black (+) and one while (-), with shapes as sug- 


gested in Fig. 2d, which obey a law 


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This is a wonderful quality of space, we can eat it 
up in different sizes and shapes in infinite numbers 
of ways. 


If we adopt a family of angle regular or merely 
angie similar polygons to be used as floor plans 
of rooms, city blocks, etc. one further property 
we will almost certainly want 1s that the figures don't, 
aa we place them side by side, have gape appear, dead 
Spaces which we can not accupy with any of our figures, 
It is likely that our plan will not be a dense packing, 
we ourselves will make gaps between the polygons, 
but we don't want their’ position imposed upon us: 


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of nature that 


200,000 steps of the motion of four spots each of 
which has the same constraints as our spots before, 
with the additional constraint that they all interact 
weakly with each other in the sense that they “repel” 
each other when they come too close (the transition 
probability for turning away from each other is slightly 
increased when near), and that they “attract” each 
other when they go too far (the transition probabil- 

ity for turning toward each other is increased when 
apart), Clockwise circumnavigated squares are paint- 
ed black. Since there are only 256 steps visible in 
this pattern, it is clear that some of the steps must 
have been repeated several thousand times. Hence, 
this pattern has reasonable stability. 


that opposite signs attract. We may smile at the 
naiveté of this natural scientist who discovers 
these “laws”, because we know that this whole 
pattern is generated by only four spots zooming 
around like mad in an almost random fashion. 
However, we should not forget that the accent lies 
on the almost. That is the crux of my thesis: Small 
constraints are sufficient to produce considerably 
ordered structures. Hence, the discoveries of our 
natural scientist are not so naive after all; he only 
puts his knowledge into a different language. The 
two descriptions are equivalent 





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Architectural Design 


This is the only architectural magazine we've 
seen that consistently carries substantial new 
information, as distinct from the stylistic eye- 
wash characteristic of most architecture jour- 
nals. It galls my jingoistic soul to see the Bri- 
tish publishing so much of the best techno- 
logical information (cf. New Scientist, p.24; 
Industrial Design, p.25; Sculptor’s Manual, 
p.30; TV Production, p. 39). Dave Evans, a 
local Australian whiz, says it's because English 
bright guys don’t have much to grip them com- 
mercially, so they spread their brightness 
around. (Also they flock to America in search 
of commercial ferocity.) 


Anyway, here’s to more fluid information. 
Architectural Design 


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Triggered by a lack of space, and wanting to do 
something, a group of architectural students at 
MIT last year spontaneously rebelled against 
the constraiming environment of their drafting 
rooms, Scroumging materials, working clan- 
destinely, they shifted block partitions and 
erected a series of mezzanines or platforms 
within ther mvo-storey drafting rooms (centre). 
Three architecture students, Stern, Hanks and 
Owen, describe below the process as they saw tt. 

The design faculty, also cramped for space, 
solved therr own problems more conventionally, 
through outside designers and contractors, This 
failed tw generate a corresponding level of 
excitement, commitment or sense of achievement, 


The Japanese House 


Without getting all sentimental and exotic 
we're still going to agree that Japanese make 
better houses than anybody else (they also 
have the fastest growing economy in the world, 
but that’s another story — or is it?). If you're 
going to build your own house and don't mind 
some inspiration on the subject, this book was 
laboriously made for you. It's a great big 
Christmas present of a book full of yummy 
photos and diagrams and details of technique, 
all of which seems right within reach: |-can- 
do-it. Nice cure for nothing-can-be-done-be- 


cause-it’s-too-damned-big industrial blues. 
[Suggested by Tassajara Zen Center] 


$27.50 may choke you up in which case try 
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings, 
$2.50 from Dover Publications, Inc., 180 
Varick Street, New York, N.Y. 10014 





SECLUSION IN BUILDING is an essential instrument 
for establishing, or preserving, the freedom of man. 
For, only in solitude can man escape from the coer 
cion to which he is subjected when among the masses. 














Shoji paper is the “glass” of the Japanese house. 

its qualities, however are of a different nature, and 
thus, also are its effects. The light, broken already 

by the broad overhand of the eaves, is diffused by 

the paper and creates a characteristic light condition 
comparable to twilight. This situation does not change 
basically even if the evening or winter sun hits the 
paper directly. No glare, no shadows; a general gloom 
creates a soft, emotional atmosphere. With artificial 
light in use, the shoji paper shows its reflective-dif- 
fusing ability, and at night with lights turned out, 

might even offer an interesting shadow play the moon 
has staged with the old weather-worn pine tree. As 
time passes, the paper darkens. Here and there, a torn 
piece is carefully cut out and replaced by new, lighter 
paper. The paper pattern becomes, though irregular, 
more interesting and lively. The paper ages, as does 
man. 


The Japanese House — 
A Tradition for 
Contemporary Architecture 


Heinrich Engel 
1964; 495 pp 


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Capsutized freak out 

Metal to rubber of asphalt ribbons plugged into 
Vietnam and the price of acrosolied ketchup thru 
W.D.BJ. Sear City via the chromium telescoping 
finger. 700 miles of the great highway turn on, 13 
hours of kecen-sel! survival service and all the gear to 
keep the wheels flying, the gut full, and the mind 
blown on soul and acd, and rune-in, cat, and flash, 
rush, Onc South and zapp it forward, gas-up; and 
hum and sink into supa-fit vinyl pads and watch it all. 
All the cardboard cities and the X-ray of us all on the 
giant billboards. And buy me, lay me hot dog- 
burgers. Blink, zip me into bed and flash past a 
thousand Kleencx sleeperies — oe 
try’ to break up the big h consume hy- 
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Topic 

To make each house so personal, individual 
and well-adapted to its inhabitants, that 
100,000 houses will be as different from one 
another as 100,000 people are, 


Author 
Christopher Alexander, June 1967. 


Pattern 

IF: there is given any dwelling—apartment or 
house, irrespective of the number of inhabi- 
tants. (This pattern may also apply to certain 
other buildings like offices which require an 
individual and personal character.) 

THEN: every wall, (both interior and exterior) 
ts to be 3-Sft deep, and made of hand-carvable- 
space-frame. Floors are to be 2-3ft deep, and 
also made of hand-carvable-space-frame. 
Definition: 

Hand-carvable-space-frame is to be interpreted 
as follows. It is a mgid space frame, with an 
exterior vertical surface made of materials 
which are readily available on the retail 
market, and casily cut, modified, painted, 
nailed, glued, replaced by hand, using only 
tools available at any hardware store. Possible 
examples are wood, plywood, fibreglass, 
styrofoam, polystyrene... . The space frame 
is to be made highly redundant, so that large 
sections of it may be removed without weak- 
ening it. It is also made so that pieces or 
sections may be added to it in such a way 
that these sections become continuous with, 
and indistinguishable from, the original 
surface. 


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Once the room requirement is decided, the separate 
rooms are sometimes cut out in paper and children 
and parents individually try to achieve the best room 
arrangement on the ken grid. One mat arrangement 
= is finally decided upon and wall openings, picture re- 
bs cesses (tokonoma), closets, etc. are listed. No meas- 
Everything is controlled merely 


nent by the ken grid and the mat arrangement. 








Audel Guides 


We've seen no series of individual technique publications 
more complete than the Audel books published by Howard 
Sams and Company. However, we're not proficient enough 


in this area to critique particular manuals against others 
their field. Suggestions and reviews invited. 


This part of the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG should be one 


All the following prices are postpaid. 
Automobile Guide (AUD-1) $6.95 
Home Appliance Service Guide (AUD-2) $6.95 
Radiomans Guide (AUD-3A) $5 
Television Service Manual (AUD-3B) $5 
Handy Book of Practical Electricity (AUD-4) $5.95 
Truck and Tractor Guide (AUD-5) $5.95 
Plumbers & Steam Fitters Guides - 4 Vols. (AUD-6) 
Painting & Decorating Manual (AUD-7) $4.95 
Carpenters and Builders Guides - 4 Vols. AUD-8) set $16.95 
Diesel Engine Manual (AUD-9) $6 
Welders Guide (AUD-10) $4.95 
Mathematics and Calculations for Mechanics (AUD-11) $4.95 
Machinists Library (AUD-12) $13.50 set 
Wiring Diagrams for Light and Power (AUD-13) $4 
Home Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Guide (AUD-14A) $6.95 
New Electric Library 10 Vols. (AUD-15A) set $25 
Answers on Blueprint Reading (AUD-25) $4.95 
Masons & Builders Guides - 4 Vols. (AUD-26) set $10.50 
Electric Motor Guide (AUD-27) $5.95 
Oil Burner Guide (AUD-28) $3.95 
Sheet Metal Pattern Layouts (AUD-29) $7.50 
Sheet Metal Workers Handy Book (AUD-30) $3.95 
Mechanical Drawing Guide (AUD-31) $3 
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Questions & Answers for Electricians Exarns (AUD-34) $3.50 
Electrical Power Calculations (AUD-35) $3.95 
‘ New Electric Science Dictionary (AUD-36) $3.50 
Power Plant Engineers Guide (AUD-37) $6.95 


Alaskan mill 


We've heard almost nothing about how good this ‘one-man 
sawmill’ is, but we've heard plenty of statements of need for 


such an item. If you get one before we do, let us know 
about it. 


The ALASKAN JR. is a lightweight, one-man lumbermaker. Drill 
3 holes in the blade and simply mount on your own chain saw. It is 
easy to operate, and mills accurate smooth, full dimension grade one 


lumber-wherever you need it, even in remote areas. 


SIMPLY MOUNT THIS ATTACHMENT TO YOUR CHAINSAW 


no special tools or alterations are required. It’s as simple as changing 
bar and chain. Use with one or two motors, either direct or gear 
With this attachment you can 
make all the lumber you need. All perfectly dimensioned beams, 
railroad ties, cabin logs, hardwood cants, etc. Thr Alaskan is avail- 


drive with 6 or more horsepower. 


able in 6 models. 











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postpaid for complete unit: Alaskan, Jr. bar and 
chain, helper handle, oiler kit, guide rail brackets, 
file and guide, and 7 hp Mono power unit. 

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House Heating Guide (AUD-41) $5.95 

Millwrights & Mechanics Guide (AUD-42) $6.95 
Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia 2 Vols. (AUD-43) $8.95 

Water Supply & Sewage Disposal Guide (AUD-46) $4 

Gas Engine Manual (AUD-48) $4 

Outboard Motor & Boating Guide (AUD-49) $4 

Encyclopedia of Space Science - 4 Vols. (AUD-50) set $19.95 
Domestic Compact Auto Repair Manual (AUD-52) $5.95 
Foreign Auto Repair Manual (AUD-53) $5 

Programmed Basic Electricity Course (AUD-54) $4 

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Practical Chemistry for Everyone (AUD-57) $5.95 

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Village Technology 
WOVEN CH WATTCE ConmsTeecriod 


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VITA (Volunteers for International Technical Assistance) is 
the only source of specific practical information on small- 
group technology that we've found. But what a source. 







They have prepared a two-volume “Village Technology Hana- ee 4 
book" for overseas use by the U.S. Agency for International 2 
Development that is ideal for rural intentional communities. s 
This handbook now is in revision; the new edition should be . 
available as of December, 1968 - inquire for price. : 
Also VITA has a catalog of funky tools — Village Techno- 7 
logy Center Catalog — available free. For the items listed t 8 
hey will supply plans for making the tools, or rent or sell ? 
the items — inquire for price. 7: 
VITA has a series of specific papers that cost very little 12 

(eg. 30¢). Titles include “Low-Cost Development of Small 13 

Water-Power Sites”, “How to Salt Fish”, “Making Building c - 

Blocks with CINVA-Ram”, “Solar Cooker Construction — 15 

Manua!”. 16 

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VILLAGE TECHNOLOGY CENTER 


CATALOG 


The "BEEHIVE" BUILDING, so 
shape, is unusually well adapted for use as farm 
out-buildings (chicken houses, storage sheds and 
granaries). It is cheap to build because the walls 
are only 25 cm thick and come together to form the 
roof. Sun-dried bricks are suitable construction 
material in dry areas; stabilized earth or burned 
brick plus a covering of water-proof plaster must 
be used in areas with high rainfall. 

















named because of its 
"BEEHIVE" 
BULLDING 





Cat.No. M-103 Building instructions only 


"BEEHIVE" BUILDING is 


Tue construction of the 


CONSTRUCTLON simple and can be done by unskilled people using 
JIG for the JIG shown. The JIC is designed to swing com- 
“BEEHIVE” pletely around while the free end serves as a 
BULLDING guide pole. By laying the bricks against the end 
of the guide pole, the building is kept perfectly 
circular and the walle are brought in to form the 


“beehive shape. Base and fitting only; poles 
must be provided locally. 
Cat.Ne. M= 103A Diameter: 3" - Lenath: 36" We. 30 lbs. 
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WOODMAKER'S 


CUTTING BENCH 


Cat No. M116 


EVAPORATIVE 
FOOD COOLER 


Cat.No, M-83 








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Rovipment for which suitable designs 
@re being sought or developed for inclu- 
sion in future catalog supplements: 


Animal harness 28 Clothes wringec 
Tractors 29 Chlorinator 

Moldboard plows 30 Sterilizer 

Harrows 31 Baby incubator 

Seed planters 32 Baby scales 

Grain drills 33 Automatic flush toilet 
Cultivators 34 «6Solar food dryer 
Dusters 35 Solar still 

Sprayers 3% Soil mixer 

Threshing machines 37 «Sifting apparatus 


Concrete mixer 

Concrete block machine 
Concrete block forms, wood 
Wheelbarrows 


Winnowing machines 

Seed cleaner 

Rice huller and polisher 
Oil seed press 


Farm cart 42 Flashlight projector 
Rice drying equipment 43 Photo enlarger 
Incubators 44 Bamboo science equipment 
Brooders 45 Playground equipment 
Peanut sheiler 46 Arc velder 

Pumps 47 Spot welder 

Deep well pump 48 Blacksmith's forge 
Rotary centifugal pump 49 Sheet metal brake 


Diaphragm pump 50 Sheet metal rolls 

Hydraulic ram 51 Kiln 

Well drilling equipment 52 Potter's wheel 

Well casing forms 53 Bobbin winders 

Sawdust heating stove 54 Spinning and weaving equipment 


SOLAR WATER HEATER 


aBB TRACT 


To provide hot water, primarily =r ween 
for washing clothes, in areas where \av\. sone 
Pos comme 


fuel ts scarce and sunshine is pien- 





SAND OR GRAVEL 


A = Protective drainage ditch to keep drainage water a safe distance from spring 


BS Orginal slope and grownd fina 
C = Sereened outhet pipe can discharge freely or be piped to village or residence 








This ingenious CUTTING BENCH has @ vise at one 
end in which a block of wood could be held by 
pressing on a foot treadle--leaving both hands 
free to operate tools, It is a very useful device 
which has application in a number of situations. 
One of ite earlier uses was for holding wooden 
shingles while tapering with a draw-knife. 


Size: 20"*72"%42" _We,100 Ibs. 





In warm and dry climates, an EVAPORATIVE FOOD 
COOLER will extend the period for keeping food 
fresh and preserve leftovers. It also helps to 
keep crawling and flying insects away from food. 

The COOLER operates on the principle of evapora- 
tion of water from the heavy cloth cover which is 
kept wet at all times by absorbing water from the 
pan in which the cooler stands. 

It will got work in damp and humid areas. 


Size: 17"%13"«57" We. 26 lbs, 


ine VITA SOLAR COOKER is designed to be sturdy, 
relatively easy to make, easy to repair and low in 
cost. It uses the principle of the Fresnel reflec- 
tor which concentrates light and heat. 

The COOKER--when used in areas having more than 
2000 hours of sunshine per year--provides the heat 
equivalent to 500 watts (which will boil a quart 
of water in 12 to IS minutes). 

Larger models of the COOKER can be provided. 


Size: $2"%46"«50" We. 24 lbs. 








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The Indian Tipi 


Tipis are cheap and portable. To live in one 
involves intimate familiarity with fire, earth, 
sky, and roundness. The canvas is a shadow- 
play of branches by day, people by night. 
Depending on your body’s attitude about 
weather, a tipi as a dwelling is either a delight 
or a nuisance. Whichever, you can appreciate 
the elegant design of a tipi and the complete- 
ness of the culture that produced it. 


The Laubin’s book is the only one on tipis, 
but it is very good. All the information you 
need, technical or traditional, is here, and the 
Laubins are interesting people. 


Later we discovered that the idea of a ventilating 
pipe underground to the fireplace is the very best 
way of insuring a clear lodge and the most heat. 


It is a joy to be alive on days like this, and when 

we come back to the tipi, after a long ride or a hike in 
the mountains, the little fire is more cozy and cheer- 
ful than ever. The moon rides high in the late fall 
nights, and when it is full, shines right down through 
the smoke hole. Its pale white light on the tipi fur- 
nishings, added to the rosy glow of the dying fire, is 
beautiful beyond description. 


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We have word about three sources in the U.S. 
of ready-made tipis, and so far Goodwin-Cole 
is still the best — best construction, lowest cost. 
They also have tipi liners, which you will need 
if weather is wet or cold. 


For the following, shipping weights are undetermined. 
Inquire, or have the item sent shipping cost C.O.D. 


10 oz. white duck 10 oz. flame treated 


white duck 
10° diameter $55 $83 
14’ diameter $66 $98 
20’ diameter $1 08 $1 54 


10-foot is suitable for nomadic couple; 14-foot for 
small family. 20-foot for extended family or occa- 
sions. Flame-treated is unpleasant; law requires it 

in some places. Tipis of green, blue, orange, red or 
yellow drill are available. Poles are available if you're 
that lazy. 


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The Indian Tipi 
Reginald and Gladys Laubin 
1957; 208 pp. 


$4.95 postpaid 


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Indians had definite rules of etiquette for life in the 
tipi. If the door was open, friends usually walked 
right in. If the door was closed, they called out or 
rattled the door covering and awaited an invitation 
to enter. A shy person might just cough to let those 
inside know he was waiting. If two sticks were 
crossed over the door, it meant that the owners 
either were away or desired no company. If they 
went away, they first closed the smoke flaps by 
lapping or crossing them over the smoke hold. The 
door cover was tied down securely and two sticks 
were crossed over it. The door was thus “locked,” 
and as safe in Indian society as the most strongly 
bolted door would be in our civilization today. 











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Fic. 1. Pacrern for Ssomx Tipe (18-foot). 


Aladdin Kerosene Lamps 


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Coleman lamps are terrible — they hiss and 
clank and blind you, just like civilization. 


Aladdin is the answer if you need good light 
and 117ac isn't around. It is bright, silent, and 
requires no pumping. (It does require some 
babying to keep the mantle from smoking up; 
it's like not burning toast.) 


British made and efficiently designed, 
the lamps are available in this country from: 


A! ndustries, Inc. 
K Lamp Division 
fh Tennessee 37210 


Some of the Aladdins are rather ornamental. 
simplest designs are B-139 Font Lamp (aluminum) 


$15.97 
and B-223 Hanging Lamp 


$22.63 (shade extra: $2.60) 


C.Q.D. the shipping costs. 














The Indian way of attaching peg loops, as illustrated, 
is not only ingenious but easy and sturdy — far better 
than either sewn or stamped grommets. Insert a peb- 
ble about 3/4 of an inch in size on the under side of 
the cover about six inches above the edge, at a seam 
wherever possible, and around this pebble tie a piece 
of 3/15-inch cord. Double the cord, tie it in either 

a square knot or a clove hitch about the pebble, then 
join the free ends in a square know. Marbles will do 

if you cannot find smooth round pebbles. 





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Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth 


This book of almost 1200 pages is the result of a major confer- 
ence held in 1955, sponsored by the Wenner Gren Foun- 
dation for Anthropological Research. More than 50 scholars 
submitted papers, covering almost every imaginable point of 
view related to man’s capacity to transform his physical 
environment. Though first presented nearly 15 years ago, 

the facts and insights are richly rewarding today. In my opinion 
in fact, it is an unsurpassed achievement in assembling 
pertinent, insightful information of interest not only to serious 
students of the planet Earth, but to non-trained readers as well. 


The three sections of the book are: |. “Retrospect”, an historical 
background, II. “Process”, methods and agencies involved in 
man’s interactions with the land; and Ill. “Prospect”, the 

effects and future implications of man’s hab- 
itation of the Earth. Some typical subjects 
covered within these sections include: fire 
as the great force employed by man; origins 
and decline of woodlands; man and grass (sic); ecology of 
peasant life; harvests of the seas; ports channels and coast 
lines; and sewerage (don't belittle sewerage — society is struc- 
tured around it). 


lowosre, Harace 


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This book rewards a reader like me because of its minimum 
of moralizing and its abundant substance. Edgar Anderson, 
director of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and 
without whom such a book as this would be certainly incom- 
plete, pointed out that the average thoughtful person has 
little inkling of how man has reclothed the world. Even 
professional biologists have been tardy in recognizing that 

a significant portion of the plants and animals surrounding 
us are of our own making. For example, neither Kentucky 
bluegrass nor Canada bluegrass is native to those places, but 
came from Europe. The corn belt is a very obviously man- 
dominated landscape, but the casual observer might never 
realize that even the grass covered and oak-dotted stretches 
of what looks like indigenous California vegetation came 


uninvited from the Old World along with the Spaniards. 
[Reviewed by Richard Raymond] 


(_ — - 


Two Mushroom Books 


Finding a strange, slimy, luminous colored growth on dark 
rotting wood is surprise and pleasure; to extend that expe- 
rience into identifying it and possibly EATING it is even 
better. For the beginner one batch of mushrooms can 
occupy a whole day, from finding them, through waiting 
for a good spore deposit and making a decision, to cook- 
ing them. An efficient guidebook is essential to avoid 
frustrations. 


Alexande 


$6.95 







1962; 133 pp. 


from 


On a tramp through the fields and forests, carry with you a small jar 
of butter, creamed with salt and pepper. On finding any edible mush- 
room (except morels or elfinsaddles), collect a few dry sticks and fire 
them. Split a green stick (alder or willow) at one end, Put the mush- 
room in the cleft, hold it over the fire until tender, season with the 
butter. Eat from the stick. 

from “The Savory Wild Mushroom” 












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The Mushroom Hunter’: 


1958; 1967; 264 pp. 


postpaid 
from 
LU * "ty of Michigan Pre 
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f , Michigan 4810 
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Ww .- EARTH CATALOG 


The Savory Wild Mushroom 
Margaret McKenny 


$3.95 postpaid 


u y of Washington Press 
Vashington 98105 


EARTH CATALOG 





Generally speaking, the plants which follow man around the world 
might be said to do so, not because they relish what man has done 
to the environment, but because they can stand it and most other 
plants cannot. 









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Almost every change in environmental conditions which man can 

make results in some change in the water economy or water budget 

at the earth's surface. 
The pressure for beef supply from the grasslands is very rapidly 
depleting the potential for protein. Where the plow went 

ahead 
of the cow, we have been able to measure the reduction in soil 
capabilities. The protein content of the wheat now grown on the 
eastern edge of the grassland area has been dropping decidedly. 
Where once it ranged from 19 to 11 per cent, it is now 14-9 per 
cent. 

These are all very good ideas, but I've got something else that is very 

much more important. every time you get where there is one of 

these populations of plants, find a large, flat rock, in the shade if 

necessary; sit down upon it for a least fifteen minutes by your wrist 

watch; and do not try to think about your clematises, Just think what 

a nice day it is, how pretty the flowers are, and the blue sky. Think 

how lucky you are to be doing this kind of work when the rest of the world is 

doing all the awful things they do not want to do. Just let 

your mind alone. Now, | am not joking. Please do this, by the lock 

if necessary. ———-_-— 


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” William L. Thomas, ed. — ; 
Elite bay Witte LT 1956; 1193 pp. i: Cr te ET 
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—_ © « 
The McKenny book is 5 compact, but not especially well 
organized for use. It contains clear and concise descriptions 
of 83 varieties of fungi, some of them peculiar to the Puget 
Sound region, the rest common throughout the U.S., and 

33 black-and-white and 48 color photographs. There is also 
an article on mushroom poisons and the many fine recipes 
make one want to rush to the woods and immediately gather 
baskets of Chanterelles, Morels and Ceps. Not so easy! 


Smith's book, which | prefer, is more technical in language 
and scope, although, as a field guide, it avoids identification 
methods involving microscopes and chemicals. It is much 
more complete, covering 188 varieties with a black-and- 
white photo of each plus 84 color photos, and it is organ- 
ized in keys which are super to use if you like being methodi- 
cal. It is not necessarily true, however, that it is quicker 

to follow the system: in thumbing through either book, as 


in wandering in the woods, luck and perseverance further. 
{Suggested and reviewed by Sandra Tcherepnin] 


rH. Smith 





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164. COPRINUS ATRAMENTARIUS (INKY CAP) 
Edibility. Edible, but some people experience a peculiar type of 
intoxication from eating this species and afterward drinking an alco- 


holic beverage. | have now discovered three people in Michigan with 
this type of sensitivity. 
from “The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide" 


KEYS TO FAMILIES 


1. Gills turning black and “melting” at maturity 
Coprinus, in the family ee 


1. Gills not liquefying at maturity ...... ... 2 
2. Gills free from the stalk cacti 3 
2. Gills attached to the stalk - . 6 


3. Spore deposit chocolate brown to blackish and mature 
gills the same color, ring present on stalk 
‘ The Agaricaceac 
3. Spore deposit and mature gills paler .... ...... 4 
4. Spore deposit pink to vinaceous or reddish; mature 
gills about the same color 
The Volvariaceae (Pluteus magnus) 
4. Spore deposit white (greenish in one)... 5 
5 Volva present around base of stalk or remains of outer 
veil present on the cap The Amanitaceac 
5. Volva absent; inner veil present; cap tf scaly with the 
scales ingrown and usually of appressed hairs (fibril- 
lose ) Chlorophyllum and Leucoagaricus 
6. Spore deposit white .c pale lilac, yellow, or pakies 
buff 
“from The Mushroom veenear's Fee Guede" 


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Organic Gardening 
How {fo Grow Vegetables and Fruits by the Organic Method 


In the month that | have had my copy of “How to Grow 
Vegetables and Fruits by the Organic Method,” | have 
browsed it and refered to it for so many different 
reasons, out of so many different moods, that | can’t 
decide if its resting place on the shelf is among my other 
“how-to” books or somewhere between the poetry and 
books on oriental religion. 


But | shall worry about that problem when the time comes, 
if it does. Right now I'm digging into it so often and with 
such delight it doesn’t need a place on a shelf. | keep it in 
handy reach on the dining room table. 


This book is the definitive manual on organic gardening. 

It is loaded with information, 550,000 words spread over 
926 pages. It is wondertully illustrated with pictures that 
are precise and useful, as well as pleasing to the eye. Ina 
pleasant, relaxed prose style, the style of people who ob- 
viously have spent more time in the garden than in the lib- 
rary but who at the same time are so confident of what 
they're saying their words ring hard and true, the editors 

of this manual have gathered together every fact that one 
would need to know to become a successful organic gardener, 
almost anywhere in the United States. 


Vitamin Losses 


Vegetables to be cooked should be handled in the same manner as saiad 
vegetables. Gather immediately before using or else wash, dry and store 
in « cool place. If they are left at room temperature and in the light, much 
folic acid, vitamin B, and 50 per cent or more of the vitamin C in most 
fresh vegetables can be lost in a few hours. ™ 


Inoculate Garden Legumes - 

If you are planning to grow any beans, peas or peanuts in your garden 
this spring, why not take time out to inoculate the seed with nitrogen gathering 
bacteria? It will certainly be worth your while. 













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+ Large Tin Can 


5B Mixture~ Compost, Phosphate Rock 
Peat Moss, Leas Mould, ak Re a ee 10 4-in. Drain Tile 
Top Soil, Phosphate Rock 3 feet I oe 


Several “secrets” are invoived in this diagram ing the large center stone, you also mulch with 
In addition to digging an outsize hole and us rocks and leaves and install adequate drainage. 











you eat, food from flowers is 


monthly), $3.00 per year. 


This book has another quality one does not always find in 
gardening manuals: it is well organized. The first part is 
about the soil; the second part is about vegetables, the third 
part is about fruit, and the closing pages are devoted to nut 
culture and herbs. 


In Section one, there are chapters on how to improve the soil; 
make compost; start plants from seed; watering and irrigation; 
when to harvest; fall and winter gardening; controlling insects; 
greenhouse gardening. 


Section two looks closely at some 100 vegetables, giving a 
page to each vegetable, artichokes through zucchini, and what 
amounts to a brief essay that describes the history, vitamin 
content and how to raise each individual vegetable. 


Another section does the same with some sixty varieties of 
North American fruit, from apples and apricots to water- 
melons and youngberries. 


In addition, there are scores of charts and graphs that pro- 
vide a complete planting guide for all the listed vegetables 
and fruits. Each geographical region of the United States 
and its peculiarities are accounted for. One table, for 
instance, Is titled, “Planning Guide for a Family of Five in 
Washington.” Categories of information for gardening in 
Washington include planting dates, growing period, length 
of the garden row, amount of seed, depth to plant, distance 
between rows, and distance between plants. 


The first edition of this authoritative book was written in 
1877 by Mr. A.I. Root. The current edition, the 33rd, is 
edited by Mr. R. Root, with the help of H.H. Root and 
J.A. Root. You get the picture. 


We've been told by several people that bee-keeping is one of 
the easiest ways to make extra money with little effort and 
a certain amount of down-home adventure. If you are what 


From whatever standpoint — commercial, nostalgic, or amateur 

scientific — this is a fascinating and useful book. The Roots \ 
also have a catalog of bee supplies, a beginner's book (Starting * 
Right With Bees), and a magazine (Gleanings in Bee Culture— \ 


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One need not, however, intend raising food for a family of 
five before this book can be useful to you, and a a pleasure. 
| find it absolutely stimulating just as reading matter. It’s 
pleasing in the way that thumbing through a catalog filled 
with delights you crave can be pleasing. Browsing in this 
book reminds one of fundamental things, of soil and water 
and air, and one’s own involvement in the natural scheme 
of the world. The book is beautiful in the way that native 
crafts are beautiful: it’s alive aesthetically at the same time 
that it's useful. That's more than one can say about most 
novels. | own very few books I'd rather have than this one. 
| recommend it to gardeners of all shapes and sizes, and to 
aware people in general who enjoy reading books whose 
themes, images and metaphors are drawn from the world 


of nature. 
[Reviewed by Gurney Norman] 


But we are more concerned here with the “meat-eaters” — birds which 
prefer to eat millions of insect life. A few birds prefer an all-insect 
diet. They include barn swallows, swifts, house wrens, gratcatchers, 


flycatchers, brown creepers and some of the several species of warblers. 


Their bills are long and straight, or long and curved; or they may be 
short and whiskered; whippoorwills and the nighthawk family belong 
to this group. 


Universal Mill 


| first ran across C.S. Bell's grinders at the Keams Canyon trading 
post between the Hopi and Navajo reservations. Then | found one 
in the VITA catalog: “grinds coffee, corn, soy beans, sugar, mixtmal 
(for tortillas or arepa), garbanzo, seeds, peppers, spices, cocoa, 
peanuts, wheat, meat, salt, oats, buckwheat, bananas. . . . and like 
products (wet or dry)." So we ordered one and here it came, with 
all the grace and precision of a fire hydrant — | had to file the main 


‘ axle for an hour to get it into the handle. It’s fire hydrant red too. 








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In cool weather, so far 
as conditions will permit the time 
selected for handling the bees should 
be between 10 o’clock in the morn- 
ing and 3 in the afternoon. In warm 
weather the operator should never 
stand in front of the entrance— al- 
ways to one side. First, a little 
smoke should be blown in the en- 
trance. The cover should be lifted 
gently and more smoke blown be- 
tween the cover and the hive be- 
fore the hive is opened. More par- 





keeper with four or five colonies of 
bees will have no difficulty in selling 
honey to his neighbors. It soon be- 
comes known that he has a few hives 
of bees and the people in the vicinity, 
feeling that they can buy “real hon- 
ey,” will go to the neighbor and pay 
good prices furnishing their own 
utensils. If the honey is of first 
quality there is no trouble about sell- 
ing the entire crop from the door- 
way 


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The 
Prongs are made of thin strips of brass 
and are so sensitive that they spread eas- 
ily to let the bees through at the apex. 


Porter bee escape. two V-shaped 


After the bees the springs, the points 

fly back to position, shu off qa return. 

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Organic Method 


ed. J.I. Rodale 
and staff 


1961; 926 pp. 


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Best book for the bathroom we've seen. Nibble your way 
to knowledge of technology. Each two pages of the book 
is a bunch of text and a bunch of diagrams on all the big 


pens to data-processing. If you develop time travel, it 
might be interesting to take this book back to the sixteenth 
century and leave it under some European’s pillow. (Now 
think about contact with alien civilizations.) 


Introduction to Engineering Design 


Out of a whole section of books on design in the 
Engineering Library at Stanford, this book looked far the 
best. Recently Steve Baer (dome and solar designer) came 
across it on our editing tables, sat down and paged, then 
got up and hurriedly wrote a letter to a friend about the 
book and its author. | asked Steve to pick out some use- 
ful quotes and pictures and he wouldn't. “Look anywhere 
you open it,” he advised, then ordered a copy. 


Contents of the book include: The Engineering Problem 
Situation, Design Project Organization, Information and 
the Need Analysis, Identification of the Problems, Infor- 
mation Sources, Synthesis of Alternatives, Estimation and 
Order-of-Magnitude Analysis, Engineering and Money, 
Preliminary Design, Engineering Problem Modeling, The 
Iconic Model, Conceptual Representation, Expansion of 
the Criterion Function, Checking in Engineering Design, 
Optimization, etc., etc. 


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Fig. 7.4 Possible water channel sections. 
Water supply project for mountain cabin. 


WATER SUPPLY FOR MOUNTAIN CAMP 

For another simple example, let us estimate how we would bring 
water from a running stream into a tank (let’s say a 50-gallon 

gravity tank) to supply water for a vacation cabin in the woods. 

A natural supply point is 100 ft. away upstream, guaranteeing among 
other things a clean, continuous water supply. Our problem is 
transport. Shall we use pipe, an open rick-lined channel in the 
ground, or a wooden flume or trough? See Figure 7.4. 


As we think about this, we disregard the open channel in the ground 
as too easily contaminated. The pipe could be laid on the ground; 
and the wood flumes could be suspended from tree trunks and 
possibly covered as shown by the dashed “board” in the illustration. 
Thus, we have two reasonable ways of doing this job; the questions 
now concern cost and convenience. 


Next we check the sizes needed. If we wanted the 50-gal tank 
filled in 15 min, we would need a flow of about 4 gal/min. This is 
a stream of water about as big as a person's finger when the water 
is flowing two feet per second, as shown by the equation in the 
footnotet deriving the cross-sectional area, A, of the stream. 


This area would require a pipe one inch in diameter. If we were 
using the wood “vee” channels, we need two boards each 

about three inches wide to avoid splashing over, or one-half board 
foot per running foot of channel (per foot of channel length). (A 
board-foot is one square foot of wood, one inch or less thick.) 


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Now we need to arrive at costs. The most convenient reference is 

a broad-coveraged catalog (such as that of Sears, Roebuck), in which 
wood, metal, and other supplies can be found listed at retail prices. 
Of course, one can also phone the retail plumbing or lumber suppliers. 
In any case, we find 


Wood: 15¢-20¢ / board-foot in the sizes we need 
1 in. iron pipe: 30c / ft 
3/4 in. copper pipe: 58c¢/ ft (One size smaller than iron pipe 
for the same flow rate.) 
Assuming one-half board-foot for each running foot of wood 
channel, the comparisons are 


Wood: 10¢ / running foot, materials only 
tron: 30¢ / running foot, materials only 
Copper: 60¢ / running foot, materials only 











Since we would do the work ourselves, the cost of labor is 
disregarded, and it seems that wood should be our choice. On 

one final check though, we ask whether these are all the choices. 
Someone suggests plastic pipe, so we look that up: It is corrosion- 
resistant, flexible, easily connected, sanitary; it has a smooth interior; 
it could be in one piece and simply laid on the ground. It seems to 
be a natural choice. The price of 3/4in. diameter plastic pipe is 10¢/ft; 
1-in. diameter is 16¢/ft. Considering the labor needed with wood or 


iron pipe, or the cost of copper tubing, and the plastic’s sanitary 6000S DISTRIBUTION 
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the preferred choice. 


Thus our final estimate is the use of this plastic tubing, probably 3/4-in. 
diameter at 10¢/ft. 


t A=Q/V (area = flow/velocity) CONSUMPTION 


where 
Q = 4 gal/min = 1000 cu in./min (1 gal = 231 cu in.) 
V = 2 ft/sec = 24 in/(1/60 min) = 1500 in./min 


“DESIGN is a part of PLANNING 
+ PLANING is 8 part of PRODUCTION 


Fig. 3.7 The production-consumption cycle, 


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New Scientist is the best evidence we've seen 
that there are new scientists in the world, 
young, politically aware, irreverent, active. 
Every week here's yet another blue New 
Scientist (if you get behind reading, it’s 
hopeless), full of actual news, critique, and 
gossip of the research world, The magazine is 
British, so you get perspective on U.S. accom- 
plishments (flattery nonetheless), and report 
of worldwide activities unreported in most 
American journals. The Ariadne column is a 


geln: [Suggested by Steve Baer] 


A device with more than a little of the Daeda- 
lus magic about it was unveiled at Stanford 
University, California, last week. As part of the 
finals in a mechanical engineering course, 
students were asked to build a machine capable 
of climbing a flight of stairs. Everybody's 
favourite was a robot which strutted to the top, 
wheeled, fired a small cannon at the onlookers, 
waved a Nazi flag, gave a rousing rendition of 
“Deutschland uber Alles”, gave the Nazi salute 
. and then blew itself to bits. If all else fails, a 
million dollar job must surely await this young 
engineer at California’s famed Disneyland. 






















TRENDS AND DISCOVERIES 


Two physicists at the University of Rochester, by means of a beautiful 
experiment, have proved Dirac’s contention that the interference patterns 


of light are produced by single photons interacting with themselves 


Should sportsmen take dope? 


Last week, a report of an apparently outstandingly successtul.experiment 
in extra-se.isory perception appeared in the ‘‘establishment” scientific literature 
for the first time for more than twenty years. Is ESP scientifically respectable at last? AR IA B)\Y FE 


HE ENERO & 
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Recently, Solomon Snyder and _ Elliott 
Richelson of the Johns Hopkins School of 
Medicine, Baltimore, were playing around with 
molecular models ofa number of psychedelic 
drugs, It suddenly occurred to them that each 
of their models could be formed into a con- 
figuration that approximated certain elements 
of the drug d-lysergic acid diethylamide, better 
known as LSD. From this chance observation 
Snyder and Richelson have now developed an 
elegant model that can predict a molecule’s 
psychedelic potency from its structure 
(Proceedings of the National Academy of 
Sciences. vol. 60, p. 206). 





Alcohol may form 
drugs in the brain 





The new substance, 
however, will be unique in being addictive and 
nothing else—in mathematical parlance the 
first “trivial” drug. Being totally bland and 
insipi 1, and making nobody happier even tem- 
porarily, it will neither attract the attention of 
the Mafia or the kick-seeking young, nor call 
down denunciation from the elderly, repressed 
puritans of the Bench. Its undetectable influ- 
ence will restore the junkies and compulsive 
pill-gulpers to such normality that they may 
scarcely notice their dependance on this symp- 
tomless nonentity. But Daedalus fears that he 
may. have been anticipated—that he has 


Cutting The Cord Complicates Afterbirth ’ (C.H.). NCO All the way = stumbled upon the secret of a certain American 
Obstetricians, albeit with the best will in the world, } 25% — DNA soft drink. 

have for about 300 years been meddling unnecessarily’ 

with the process of childbirth, and possibly even t 0 N—CH CH3 CH; é 

causing avoidable complications. Dr. M.C. Botha, a \ 3 H 7 CH H3 H 

South African obstetrician, suggests that by cutting 4 d N Nae all 

the cord as soon as the baby is born, they may rob ie” 

the infant of about 90 millilitres of blood—no smail c CH, 


measure in a new-born baby. And by tying the cord 





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Crops without Tillage 
new machine method for plhuting 


A row crops such as corn and soybeans 
promises to increase U.S, agricultural 
prodictivity by cutting the time usually 
spent in preparing the land with plow 
and harrow. In northern farm regions 
with short growing seasons the “no tl- 
lage”. planting machines ensure miavi- 
mam growing tinie and greater vields 
per acre; in southern farmlands, after the 
early-summer harvest of winter-grown 
grains, the machines allow a second crop 


farming at the annual meeting of the 
American Society of Agricultural Engi- 
neers in June, W. R. McClure of the Uni- 
versity of Kentucky stated that the time- 
saving technique had become popular in 
his area soon after modified corn plant- 
ers became available in 1967, capable of 
sowing corn and soybeans in harvest 
stubble and even in unbroken sod. In ad- 
dition to the time and money saved by 
omitting conventional tillage, McClure 
noted, the no-tillage system affords su- 
perior erosion control and, because it 
leaves natural mulch undisturbed, is far 
less wasteful of soil moisture than plow- 
ing and harrowing are. McClure and his 
associates at the university conclude that 
Kentucky farmers could eventually im- 
crease their earnings by more thas. 5150 
million a year by adopting dr practice. 


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Cocoons for the millions 
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simple travelling mould controlled by two men. The cheapness and speed of erection 









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from a number of different viewpoints 
and have found that the Newark and 
Detroit survey data do not support it. 
The rioters are not the poorest of the 
poor. They are not the hard-core unem- 
ployed. They are not the least educated. 
They are not unassimilated migrants or 
newcomers to the city. There is no evi- 
dence that they have serious personality 
disturbances or are deviant in their so- 
cial behavior. They do not have a differ- 
ent set of values. None of these factors 
sets the rioter off from the rest of the 
community in a way that justifies consid- 
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occupational aspiration, the rioter com- 
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field of holography, or photography by 
wave-front reconstruction. The holo- 
graphic principle is involved in a star- 
tling conjecture put forward by 2 Hun- 
garian investigator to account for the 
extraordinary sensitivity of the ultra- 
sonic echo-location systems used by bats, 
whales, dolphins and porpoises to “see” 
in the dark. This capability has been 
known for many years to resemble mod- 
erm sonar, but no satisfactory explana- 
tion has yet been offered for the fact that 
these animals can apparently distinguish 
between targets of different shapes and 
can discriminate between their own sig- 
nal and those emitted by their compan- 
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but also the phase of the ultrasonic 
waves, which they can discriminate by 


using a coherent “background” level 
of ultrasound as a reference. In other 
words, the animals are using a version of 
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Industrial Design 


Design clean and clear, and ingenious, and 
maybe superticial (the debate is underway) is 
the stamp of two generations of designers that 
now make up a friendly Establishment. The 
best window into their domain besides World's 
Fairs is the British Magazine, Industrial Design. 


[Suggested by Jay Baldwin] 





Suggested bibliography . 

Chapanis, Alphonse. “Man-Machine En- 
ineering.” Belmont, California: Warsworth 
ublishing Co., 1965. 

Clark, Grahame. “The Stone-Age Hunt- 

ers." New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 

Damon, Stoudt and McFarland, “The 
Human Body in Equipment Design.” Cam- 

bridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. 
Edhoime, 0.G. “The Biology of Work.” 

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967, 

Ewald, J.R. “Environment for Man— 

The Next Fifty Years.” Bloomington, 


Rosch and Burke. “Kinescology and Ap- 
plied Anatomy.” Philadelphia: Lea and 
Febiger, 1967. 

Sinaiko, H. Wallace. “Selected Papers on 
Human Factors In the Design and Use 
of Control Systems." New York: Dover 
Publications Inc., 1961. 

Smith and Smith. “Perception and Mo- 
tion.” Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders and 
Co., 1962. - 
Vernon, M.D. “Experiments in Visual 
Perception.” Baltimore: Penguin Book 
inc., 1966 


Junk as art, screens, etc. 

{n flame cutting, a series of torches 
cut custom parts from steel sheet. The 
remainder of the sheet is usually sent 
to the scrap heap for eventual salvage 
by steel makers. But at the Reliance 
Steel & Aluminum Company, someone 
thinks that the patterned perforations 
in sheet form might have other uses 

in sheet form might have other uses. 
Admirers—of~ such industrial art, or 
people with potential uses for these by- 
product plates, might want to discuss 
the matter with Mr. Robert Zurbach, 
a Reliance V.P., at 2537 East 27th Street, 
Los Angeles, California. 


Are designers obsolete? ee ee 







Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1967 
Fogel, L.J. “Biotechnology: Concepts 
and Applications.” Engelwood Cliffs: 
Prentice Hall, 1963. 

Gagne, R.M. “Psychological Principles 


in System Development.” New York: Holt, 
Rinehart and Winston, 1962. 

Gregory, R.L. “Eye and Brain.” New 

York: McGraw Hill, 1966. 

Jones, J.C. and Thornely, D.G. “Con- 
ference on Design Method.” New York: 
McMillan, 1963. 

McCormick, E.J. “Human Factors Engin- 
eering.” New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964-> 
McGaugh, J.L., Weinberger, N.M., Whalen, 
R.E. “Psychobiology” (readings from 
‘Scientific American"). San Francisco: 
W.H. Freeman & Co., 1967. 

Meistter, D. and Rabideau, G. F. “Human 
Factors Evaluation in Systems Develop- 
ment.” New York: John Wiley, 1965. 
Morgan, Cook. Chapanis and Lund 
“Human Engineering Guide to Equipment 
Design.” New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. 








$10.00 for “ne year (10 issues) Murre!', K.F.H. “Human Performance in 
A monthly source of the new materials, vr Industry.” New York: Reinhold, 1965. 
design tools, technological advances, and components ~~ “ai Design , 
particularly important to active designers. SI hy teoo MAN/MACHINE SYSTEMS INTERACTIONS : 


Product Engineering 


Roy Sebern pointed out the main satisfaction 

of reading Product Engineering: in the usual 
magazines such as Popular Science, everything 
has the tone of “I-wish-they'd-make. . .”; 
whereas in Product Engineering it's “We are 
making. . .". The magazine has good reporting 
and excellent editing. Increasingly it is going 
beyond the question of how to make stuff into 
why make stuff. Departments include Research 
& Technology, Mechanical Design & Power 
Transmission, Hydraulic/Pneumatic Power & 
Control, Materials & Manufacturing, Product 
Planning & Management, and the Engineer & 
His Profession. 





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snap together without need for precise 
alignment. They hold firmly until 
pulled apart by a_ specified force. 





Product Engineering 


$1 5.00 for one year (bi-weekly) 








” lites. Tew: 
« 
wiki, a from 
Developments Fail Manager 
Fe =ngineering 
to watch Igloo-like houses of urethane foam are formed by spraying over fabric and cable He ED Ee eli 08520 


forms. Dwellings of almost any size or shape can be built in a matter of minutes. 


Flying belts ruled 


A sevens of today need not feel 





by muscle-power 


It may be only a matter of time 
before researchers take some of the 
controls off jet-flying belts. This step 
will allow man to rely on his own 
sense of balance and muscle control 
while swooping around the sky al- 
most at will. 






Clearinghouse 


Its full name is “Clearinghouse for Federal 
Scientific and Technical Information,” it’s 


managed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, 
and it’s quite a service. All current unclassified 


R&D (research and development) done for or 
by the Government is available through 
Clearinghouse; this amounts to 30,000 new 
documents each year. Specific accesses are: 
U.S. Government Research and Development 
Reports (December 1,000 new documents 
twice a month), $22/year; Fast Announcement 
Service, for as many a 57 subject areas, 
delivered constantly, $5/year; and Technical 
Translations, twice a month, $12/year. These 
are indexes. Once you find what you want 
you order a paper copy (hard copy) for around 
$3 or micro-film (microfiche) for around $.65. 
The following examples of listings are from the 
Fast Announcement Service. 

[Suggested by Jon Dieges] 


as “lone” as they have in the past, 
partly because of the Inventors As- 
sistance League, which was set up 
in Los Angeles 18 months ago by 
Ted De Boer (photo, top right). 
The League was founded to help the 
inventor make his brainchild a mar- 
ketable, commercial reality. 


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Write 9 information and order forms to: 
US. E = ent of Commerce 
Clear > "+ for Federal Scientific & Technical 


Information 






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For the movies, the holographic information of an entire square- 
image field seen from one horizontal plane is contained in a narrow 
horizontal section of film. Vertical motion of this “strip hologram” at 
any speed through a laser-illuminated viewing aperture results in a 
vertically scanned but essentially stationary 3D image. So, says De- 
Bitetto, if a sequence of such strip holograms of a progressively 
changing scene is recorded by pulse laser techniques, the strip holo- 
gram sequence reconstructs what appears to be a continuous motion 
of the 3D scene, The sequence of strips is simply moved vertically 
through the laser-illuminated viewing aperture, at any velocity. 


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AD-672-250 - THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BLACKMAIL, D. Ellsberg, 
Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., July 68, 40 p, 









The Fast Announcement 
Service-recommended 
for those who want more 
mail. 


AD-674 025 - OPTICAL OR GRAPHIC INFORMATION PROCESSING 
(INFORMATION SCIENCES SERIES), Defense Documentation Center, 
Cameron Station, Alexandria, Va., Sept. 68, 229 p. . . .. DDC bibliography 
containing 183 references grouped under the following headings: (1) display 
devices and theory; (2) character recognition; and (3) pattern recognition. 





PB-179 385 - MANUAL ON DESIGN FOR LOW-COST AND AIDED SELF- 
HELP HOUSING, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 
for AID, Jan. 57 (reprinted June 67), 111 p. 


AD-674 753 - ACOUSTICAL HOLOGRAPHY OF NONEXISTENT WAVE- 

FRONTS DETECTED AT A SINGLE POINT IN SPACE, A.F. Metherell 

and S. Spinak, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Huntington Beach, Calif., May 68, 17 p. 
Describes a configuration based on an extension of the reciprocity theorem and 
realized by physically interchanging the source and detector. The hologram- 
recording operation is executed by scanning the source throughout a plane and 
sampling the resultant wavefront as a function of time with a stationary detector. 


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Science and Civilization in China, Volume IV, 


Sandy Tcherepnin just asked delicately if I've 
read Needham's Science and Civilization in China. 


Sandy, | don't know anybody who’s read 
Needham's Science and Civilization in China. 
This is gonna be a reputation review. People 
say it's a great book. I'll page through, pick 
out two graphic pictures, two balisy quotes, 
and advise everybody to go spend $35. 


Jim Fadiman was even more polite: “What's 
Needham doing in the CATALOG?” 


Nostalgia. This is the volume about Mechanical 
Engineering. Since many communities and 
individuals seem intent on reenacting human 
technological history, here’s their opportunity 
not to be limited to Western technology. You 
too can build the first cantilevered bridge, 
devise the indestructible junk sail (1 read about 
that in Needham’s Order and Life, a biology 


book), and build epic water wheels. 


For all we know, an enormous shuck is in 
progress. Has anybody out there read Science 
and Civilization in China? 


By the time Marco Polo was in China 

(c. +1285) Man-lifting kites were in 
common use, according to his description, 
as a means of divination whereby sea- 
captains might know whether their 
intended voyages would be prosperous 

or not. 


Science and 
Civilization 
in China 
Volume IV 
Part 2 
Mechanical 
Engineering 


Joseph 
Needham 

1965 

759 pp. 


$35.00 


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‘The undertaking of such a gigantic task single-handed 
reveals a creative spirit worthy of all admiration. Its com- 
pletion will make it an unprecedented and epoch-making work 
in the history of science, and it has already aroused the 
interest of scholars in every country, who regard it as a master- 
piece of modern scientific study. It cannot fail to direct the 
attention of the learned world to ancient Chinese culture and 
science.’ Yu Fanc-Hu in Kuang Ming Jih-Pao 
(Peking) 
‘This only enhances our amazement at Needham’s ability 
to discover in the ocean of datable Chinese literature so many 
anticipations of present-day scientific knowledge. Even his 
tentative speculations are as arresting as his conclusions. 
A.W. HUMMEL in American Historical Review 





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Fig. 650. Pictorial reconstruction of the astronomical 
clock-tower built by Su Sung and his collaborators at 
Khaifeng in Honan, then the capital of the empire, in 
+1090. The clockwork, driven by a water-wheel, and 
fully enclosed within the tower, rotated an observational 
armillary sphere on the top platform and a celestial 
globe in the upper storey. Its time-announcing function 
was further fulfilled visually and audibly by the perfor- 
mances of numerous jacks mounted on the eight super- 





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tanks, or columns, presents o diffi- 
cult problem. The pre-stretched 
corwas bond is 2” wide; the steel 
band (optional if specified) is 134” 
wide. Both ore quickly odjustoble 
from either end thru the screw 
head 


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shopes only. Self-lock: cams 

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Portable 

plete with “%& H.P. 110 V. motor. One man can 
mix 8 cu. ft. of cement an hour with this handy 
mixer, The S gai. pail doubles as a mizing 
drum and can be ramoved to pour the cement. 
The rugged unit is 
fastening down, can mix « batch in 2 minutes. 
Farmers. and gardeners can use it for mixing 
feeds and seeds. Ideal for pouring patios mak- 
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struction booklet inci.. 
M58-K10 H—3S tbs.—with motor 


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imposed wheels of a time-keeping shaft and appearing 
at windows in the pagoda-like structure at the front 

of the tower. Within the building, some 40 ft. high, 

the driving wheel was provided with a special form of 
escapement, and the water was pumped back into 

the tanks periodically by manual means. The time 
annunciator must have included conversion gearing, 
since it gave ‘unequal’ as well as equal time signals, 
and the sphere probably also had this (see p. 456). 





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Su Sung’s treatise on the clock, the Hsin | Hsiang 
Fa Yao, constitutes a classic of horological engi- 
neering. Orig, drawing by John Christiansen. The 
staircase was actually inside the tower, as in the 
model of Wang Chen-To (7). 

The historical significance of the mechanical rotation 
of an astronomical instrument (a clock-drive) has 
already been discussed in Vol. 3, pp.359ff.; cf. also 
p.492 below. 


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(front) 


Allusion has already been made to the ‘south- 


pointing carriage’ (chih nan chhe) in Sect.26i on 
magnetism, since it was long confused, both by 
Chinese and Westerners, with the magnetic compass. 
We know now, however, that it had nothing to do 

with magetism, but was a two-wheeled cart with a 
train of gears so arranged as to keep a figure pointing 
due south, no matter what excursions the horse- 
drawn vehicle made from this direction. 


Fig. 707. Page of drawings sent to Cayley to Dupuis- 
Delcourt in 1853 illustrating an improved Chinese 
heilcopter top which would mount more than 90 ft. 
into the air. From Hubbard & Ledegoer (I). This 

was the direct ancestor of the helicopter rotor and 
the godfather of the aeroplane propeller. 


Fig. 689. Typical Chinese horizontal windmill working a square-pallet chain-pump 

in the salterns at Taku, Hopei (king, 3). The fore-and-aft mat-and-batten type 

sails luff at a certain point in the cycle and oppose no resistance as they come back 
into the eye of the wind (see diagram on p. 559) 


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Fig. 519. Diagram of a 
sailing wheelbarrow from 

van Braam Houkgeest 
(+1797), showing the 

batten sail and multiple 
sheets so characteristic 

of Chinese nautical 

pratice. (cf. Sect. 29g below). 















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If precision tools are what you need, this 
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fastidious about what they list, and they are 
good to the customer. (“We don't lead you 
on with prices ‘subject to change without 


notice."") 


[This catalog and Silvo suggested by 
“Armchair Shopper's Guide” (see p. 44)] 


HACKSAW CUTS ANY DEPTH, 


STRAIGHT OR CURVED 


Remarkable “endless” hacksaw cuts fo any depth, even 
culs curves, because no frame interferes with blade. All 
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Does “impossible” jobs. 

After drilling a hole, blade is easily inserted for sawing 
out parts of sheets, panels, flooring, etc., as in sketch. 
Blade breakage is reduced because bdiade is supported in 
front casing on 3 hardened steel bearing balls. 


Enclosed spring returns blade automatically after each for- 
ward stroke, 


Well made. Polished chrome plated tube. Polished, nickel 
plated fittings. Ename‘ed casing and bedy. Uses standard 
10” and 12” blades available everywhere. About 15” long. 


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bend, even using two hands. Stays sharp — the pair we 
first tested is still in daily use in our shipping room after a 
year, on tough paper and cartons, isn’t dull yet! Extra- 
comfortable finger loops prevent fatigue. Precision-fitted 
fo cut filmiest fabrics without ravelling. A masterpiece of 
Scissor making. 

67A-1357 8-1/2" shears 
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WHAT OTHERS CAN’T 


These amazing files are flexible plastic strips impregnated 
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surfaces and otherwise inaccessible places. 

They're waterproof, oilproof — for use wet or dry. 
Excellent for shaping and fitting, and for fine finishing 
and polishing all metais (even hard steel) without scratch- 
ing. Remove burrs, toa! marks, corners. Touch up cutting 
tools. Smooth off sharp edges, even on hard glass and 
ceramics. 

Electrically non-conductive — safe on live circuits. Un- 
equalled for dressing and burnishing contacts, line starters, 
limit switches, commutators, relays. 





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So very small (2-3/4 x 
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The 355 is an optional 
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gouges, routers, punches, plus a planer, sander, saw, spo 
Stripper, steel rule, pin vise, screwdriver, and assorted drill bits. Packed in 
4 fitted wood chest. 


ELLIS “MAJOR” 
INSPECTION KIT 






For close and accurate examination of equip- 
ment not normally accessible to the naked 
eye. The kit consists of a series of yarying- 
length probes fitted with miniature electric 
jamps and lenses. By using these light 
probes and @combination of adjustable mirrors 
and magnifying fittings inctuded in the kit, 
the most inaccessible spots may be viewed 
through very small aperatures. Used for the 
inspection of waveguides (, S, and Q 
bands), cavities, pumps, dies, valves, 
printed circuits, smatl motors, te 
systems, relays, switchboards, elec- 
tronic components (to name just a few). 
All. parts interiocking and i . 
Included are the basic battery handle (com- 
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Mac Taylor, head of Exploration Laboratories, 
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it's a good one. 


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MOVING THE EARTH by Herbert L. 
Nichols, Jr, The most complete 
book on excavation practices, 
procedures and cquipment ever 
written, This comprehensive book 
covers the entire field of exca- 
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fill the needs of those closest 
to the actual work; the estima- 
tor,the superintendent,the fore- 
man and the operator, as well as 
the design engineer, An extreme- 
ly practical book, divided into 
21 chapters covering ~all types 
of above ground and below ground 


operations. 7 x 10, 1488 pages, 

2700 illus, 1962, 2nd Fd. $25.00 

# . Complete Spanish Translation: 
a; 9x11, 1312 pages, 2700 illustra- 
tions, 1962, $32.00 


a 


MODEL G1717 ENGINEERING COMPASS. Similar to Model G!1719 Geological Compass except thot 
it does not have pendulurn clinometer, level bubble or extension rule. This is a fine instrument for 


most engineering measurements. 


The compass and optical clinometer scales permit ropid reading of horizontal and vertical angies with 


a precision unusual in o hand-held compass. Weight with cose 9 ozs. Complete......-...0-0....... 


ATLAS OF LANDFORMS 
by James L. Scovel 


et al. A terrain 
study atlas com- 
piled essentially 
from the series of 
100 topographic 
maps illustrating 
typical landforms 


published by U. S. 
Geological Survey. 
Text material ,aeri- 
al photographs and 
diagrams .Effective 
guide to land form 
Study. 1455x174, 168 
pp,1965, Fl “ble 

binding. 20.95 


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't was the gay bomber of Libre that put us on 
to blasting as constructive catharsis. With 
explosives you can cut, dig, shape, and 
practically whittle. While suppliers are 
understandably touchy in the city, you can 
usually get dynamite without heavy credentials 
in rural areas. It costs something around $15 
for a fifty pound box. 


This book published and updated by Dupont, 
has been around for 26 years. It is well 
regarded. 

DIGGING POLE HOLES 


Dynamite is useful in digging both shallow and deep 
holes for fence posts and for telephone and other 
classes of poles. 


In hard ground and medium shale, any soft surface 
material should first be removed to the full diameter 
of the desired hole. For shallow holes, a small 
borehold should be drilled or punched along the axis 
of the pole hole to about the depth required and 
loaded with a small charge of 40 per cent “Red 
Cross” “Extra” primed with blasting cap and fuse 

or an electric blasting cap. Double caps are recom- 
mended as a safety precaution (Figure 31-A-1). For 
best results, the hole should be fully stemmed. The 
blast will loosen the hard material and aid removal 
by shoveling. 


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Any curious and intelligent person can learn a 
great deal about our planet and ourselves by 
reading this book about ways of using sunlight. 
There are many numbers in the book but the 
math never goes beyond 8th grade arithmetic. 
The book is clear and simple whether talking 
about heating water — 

For general domestic use of hot water for bathing 
and washing dishes a temperature of 135’F (57°C) 

is considered adequate and 20 gal per person per 
day is a reasonable consumption. In many sunny 
climates these requirements can be met with an 
insulated storage tank and solar radiation absorber 
which has an area of 0.75 ft’ gal-1 of hot water. A 
family of four would need a tank of 80 gal anda 
solar absorber of 60 ft*. 

or photo chemical reactions — 

The photo dissociation of iodine (Ip) molecules into 
atoms absorbs most of the visible light of the sun 
with a considerable amount of energy, but the iodine 
atoms recombine so fast that the energy cannot be 
retained, It is immediately evolved as heat during 
the exposure to light. 


! read the book on a Greyhound bus in Texas 
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my way of thinking. 

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Structure, Form and Movement 


The usual procedure is that R&D comes up 
with a new process, it's implemented for 
several years, and then some biologist says 
Hey did you know porpoises did that? (or 
snakes did that, or bees or elm seeds). And 
everybody says My, my, ain't’ Nature smart. 


Herr Hertel and colleagues is trying to reverse 
the order, learn from nature first, save time 
and stay humble. (This approach now has a 
name, “bionics”; a book by that title that’s 
around is terrible.) 


This book may be too expensive for its direct 
usefulness, but it thoroughly displays the 
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Zone 

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scene exposed at f/16 at 1/25 second. (Providing 


This invisible book contains the essence of 
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This book is a well organized presentation of 
the basic processes behind sculpture. Detailed 
processes are made to seem simple, but not 
oversimplified; it remains obvious that a good 
deal of patience will be required to cast a 
bronze by the lost wax method. People who 
do not know what technique will suit them 
best and who want a solid footing from which 
to experiment, will find A_Sculptor’s Manual 
most useful. It encourages you to attempt 
the forms you have imagined, by showing you 


how. 


The nine chapters cover plaster usage; foundry 
practice; flame and electric welding; plastics; 
cement; stone and wood; repetition casting; 
general construction; finishing; and surface 
coatings. Cross referencing, a glossary, and 
27 diagrams make the book all the more 
usable. British sculptors will find a buyer's 
guide at the end of each chapter. Americans 
are referred to the yellow pages, Bernard 
Klein’s “Guide to American Directories” 

and the “Thomas Register” (see p. 23 of the 
CATALOG) to find sources for materials. 


At the back of the book is a section of 22 
photos of finished sculpture, just enough to 
intrigue and egg you on without being pushy. 





[Reviewed by Joe Bonner] 


1968; 158 pp. 


The development of plastics has been continuing 
since the end of the last century and the term 
plastics now covers a complex of materials of which 
those dealt with here for a small and relatively 
simple part. 


Firstly, there is the vast range of thermosetting 
plastics materials which are manufactured as liquids 
in two or three component parts. These are the poly 
esters and epoxy resins. They require reinforcement 
and are formed in a one-way process. 


Secondly, there is an even larger range of thermo- 
plastics, manufactured in powder or chip form and 
fabricated into very thin sheets which are subsequently 
laminated to provide whatever thicknesses may be 
required. They are structural materials — either flexible 


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temperature at which it was formed and it will revert 
through a sequence of forming operations back into 
a sheet 


Thermosets are built up with glass-fibre reinforcement 
over female mould surfaces and subsequently painted 
if required, though mass-pigmentation can be effected 
before lay-up. 


Thermoplastics can be bent and formed when hot, 
either freely or by mechanical forming, e.g. they can 
be injected under pressure into moulds. These 
materials can be bonded with adhesives, welded 
together by high-frequency vibration, screwed over 

a frame or welded with hot gas and a filter rod. It 

is possible to vary the mass-pigmentation of various 
thermoplastics by laminating a screen-printed surface 
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Lost Wax process or cire perdu. 

A lenthy and complex process. Join all wax 
runners, risers, etc., with a wax knuckle by 
modelling with a hot spatula. Reinforce grog with 
chicken wire. Before removal from kiln, reinforce 
surface with plaster and scrim. Keep sprue clear of 
sand, etc. 


The 
process has changed little since the Greeks brought 
it to a pitch of achievement, and it is still so 
demanding that very few foundries exist. Their 
services are very costly. If you have a sculpture in 
clay, wax or plaster, and it is of a nature that 
demands faithful reproduction, there is no doubt 
that bronze — far denser than aluminum, cast by the 
Lost-Wax process — quite different from sand- 
casting - presents the only method of preserving the 
form and texture accurately. 


This is an extremely complex and variable method, 
though large works can be cast more cheaply if it is 
followed up to the point at which the wax has been 
cored — or just to the production of the wax (without 
runners or core) — and the result is then given to a 


foundry for casting. If the foundrymen produce a 


or rigid — and are formed under heat in a reversible ( 
bad result, however — it will be your fault. 


process: raise a thermoplastic object carefully to the 





book — up to date — on the techniques 


Does any reader know of a thorough 
of working with plastics? 





Creative Glass Blowing 


This well-illustrated and carefully written book 
begins with the statement “Any one can learn 
to blow glass." To a large extend the authors, 
one of whom is a professional glass blower, 
succeed in making that statement believable. 
However, the first 50 pages are concerned 
with the tools of the glass blower and | found 
myself wondering, “Yes, but can anyone 
learn to be a pipe-fitter, metal worker, 
carpenter, and electrician?” If you can do 
those things, there is little doubt that this 
book (and several hundred dollars worth of 
tools and related supplies) will enable you to 
blow glass — probably creatively. 





Don't expect to take up glass blowing casually, 
with just this book, but if it is a hobby to 

which you can commit yourself seriously this 
book would be an excellent investment, for 





Creative Glass Blowing 
James E, Hammesfahr, Clair L. Stong 


starters. 1968; 196 pp. 

There is a page at the end that lists sources of $8.00 postpaid 

tools and materials. Unfortunately, there are ; 

only a few suppliers mentioned, all of whom wae, eee eee 
are in the East. Alas, we westerners need a 664 2 Si ot Street — 





special supplement, obviously. ik 


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[Reviewed by Richard Raymond] WE) 2 ARTH CATALOG 














Here, then, is the first skill you must develop in the 
course of becoming a glass blower: the knack of 
rotating hot glass at a rate that precisely counteracts 
the force of gravity. The trick is not difficult to 

master if you follow a few simple rules. First, never 
soften more glass than you need for making a desired 
form. If you intend to impart a rounded shape to the 
end of a rod, heat only the tip. Second, never 

soften the material more than necessary to accomplish 
your objective. Obviously, stiff glass is easier to 
control than runny glass. Watch the work as it 
softens and changes form. Alter its position in the 
fire to take advantage of gravity, or to offset the 
affect of gravity, as the case may be. This is 
accomplished by rotating the work. 

















Figure 4-36. 





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In evaluating Indian beadwork, one of the first things you 

notice is whether the beads are cut or seed beads. Cut beads 
are slightly faceted so they reflect a scattered sparkling of 

light from the beadwork. They raise the value of the piece 
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trouble or expense to get cut beads, (3) the piece may be 
antique. 

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Human Biocomputer 


John Lilly has worked for a long time with sensory deprivation, 
pursuing the notion that relieving the computer (mind) of many 
of its environmenital-survival chores frees it to attend more fully 
to self-investigation. Of late he’s added LSD to the process and 





has found ways to flourish and discover within this doubly 


floating condition. 


The paper Human Biocomputer is the best internal guidebook 


Human Biocomputer 
John C., Lilly, M.D. 





1967; 160 pp. 
Inquires'ss-orice (Metzner says its about $5.00) 
from: 

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Mi ane t'a 33133 


I’ve seen — far more practical and generalized than transcendent 


Eastern writings or wishful Underground notes. Though it's 
not the whole story by any means, it makes an open start on 
fresh language and powerful technique for the frontier. 


An additional advantage the paper offers is the opportunity to 
learn and explore computers without requiring money or 
administrative approval. You inherited and grew everything 


you need, and it's free. 


For example, the term ‘reprogramming substances’ may be appropriate 
for compounds like lysergic acid diethylamide. For substances like 
ethyl alcohol the term ‘metaprogram-attenuating substances’ may be 


useful. 


| believe that by using certain methods and means some of which are 
presented in this work that truly talented and dedicated individuals 
can forge, find, and devise new ways of looking at our minds, ways 
which are truly scientific, intellectually economical, and interactively 
creative. Consider for example, the case of the fictitious individual 
created by the group of mathematicians masquerading under the 
name of “Dr. Nicholas Bourbaki.” 


This group of mathematicians in order to create a mathematics or 
sets of mathematics beyond the capacity of any one individual, held 
meetings three times a year and exchanged ideas, then went off and 
worked separately. The resulting papers were published under a 
pseudonym because the products of this work were felt to be a group 
result beyond any one individual's contribution. 


The major problems of the research of interest to the author center 


on the erasability, modifiability, and creatibility of programs. In 

other words, | am interested in the processes of finding metaprograms 
(and methods and substances) which control, change, and create the 

basic metaprograms of the human computer. It is not known whether 


[Suggested by Ralph Metzner] 











one can really erase any program. 


The boundary of the brain, of course, may be considered as the limits 
of the extensions of the central nervous system into the periphery. 


In the maximally attenuated environment (92 to 95 degrees F. 

isothermal skin, saltwater suspension, zero light levels, near-zero 

sound levels, without clothes, without wall or floor contac:, in 

solitude in remote isolation, for several hours), the addition of LSD-25 
allows one to see that ail the previous experiences with ‘outside screens’ 
are evasions of deeper penetration of self (and hence are “screens” in 






Lilly knows that it is to everybody's advantage for one kind 
of computer to link up with another, and that’s his program 


The Mind of the Dolphin 


the sense of ‘blocking the view behind,’ as well as ‘receiv ng the 


projected images’) 


with dolphins. This book reports his speculations and 
experiments with dolphins in recent years. Included is a 
thorough account by a girl, Margaret Howe, who lived alone 
with Peter Dolphin for 10 weeks. As usual with research on 
communication, everything discovered has broad implications. 





Sometimes | feel that if man could become more involved in some 
problems of an alien species, he may become less involved with his own 
egocentric pursuits, and deadly competition within his species, and 
become somehow a better being. 


We are often asked, “If the dolphins are so intelligent why aren't they 
ruling the world?” My very considered answer to this is — they may be 
too wise to try to rule the world. The question can be easily turned 
around, Why does man or individual men want to rule the world? | 
feel that it is a very insecure position to want to rule all of the other 
species and the vast resources of our planet. This means a deep 
insecurity with the “universes” inside of one’s self. One's fears and 


one's angers are being projected on others outside of one’s self; to rule 
the world is, finally, to rule one's inner realities. 


Thus a given dolphin can carry on a whistle conversation with his 
right side and a clicking conversation with his left side and do the 
two quite independently with the two halves of his brain. 


Conservatively, we estimate that the dolphin can put out ten times 
the sonic physical information per second that a man produces. 


The information does not exist as information until it is within the 
higher levels of abstraction of each of the minds and computed as 
such. Up to the point at which it becomes perceived as information, 
it is signals. These signals travel through the external reality between 
the two bodies, and travel as signals within the brain substances 
themselves. Till the complex patterns of traveling neuronal impulses 
in the brain are computed as information within the cerebral cortex, 
they are not yet information. Information is the result of a long 

series of computations based on data signal inputs, data signal 
transmissions to the brain substance, and recomputations of these 


data. 





















The Mind of the Doiphin 
John Cunningham Lilly, M.D. 
1967; 310 pp. 


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HUMAN 
BIOCOMPUTER 


JOHN C. LILLY, MD. 
1967 











PMA TOOATOS REGEAROY WeSTHTUTE 


Later with higher motivational energy the subject returned to the 
problem of the lock, the doors and the rooms somewhat refreshed by 
the experiences in the other realms. 


The essential features and the goals sought in the self-analysis is the 
metaprogram “make the computer general purpose”. In this sense 
we mean that in the general purpose nature of the computer there 
can be no display, no acting, or no ideal which is forbidden to a 
consciously willed program. Nor is any display, acting, or ideal made 
without being consciously programmed. 


“Mathematical transformations” were next tried in the approach to the 
locked rooms. The concept of the key fitting into the lock and 

the necessity of finding the key was abandoned and the rooms were 
approached as “topological puzzies.” In the multidimensional 
cognitional and visual space the rooms were not manipulated without 
the necessity of the key in the lock. 





By long and hard work | found that the evil label “negative” should 
not be tied to any mode or any kind of thinking at all. 


| found that bodily sources of discomfort, pain, or threat tend to 
program the mind in the negative mode and keep it there as long as 
the discomfort continues. As long as pain, even at a very low level, 
continues, the computer (which is one's mind) tends to program a 
negative pall. 


Once one has been through deep experiences in tune with the vast 
forces of the universe, the vast forces within ourselves, we see that 
the need for conflict, the need for hostility, and the need for hatred 
become less intense. One finds the universe inside and the one 
outside so vast and so lonely that any other living thing that loves 
or shows any signs of loving is precious and close. 


The human participant’s assumptions, i.e., those of Margaret C. Howe 
in her own words are as follows: 


1. Dolphins are capable of communication with man on the level of high 
intelligence. 

2. Dolphins are not only capable of this communication but are 

eager for it and are willing to cooperate with man to achieve it. 

3. Possibly the best way to go about establishing this communication 
is to set up a situation where the man (woman) and a dolphin live 
together as closely as possible for an extended period of time. 

4. This is a long process and involves many steps, each of which 
must be recognized and encouraged. The attempt to communicate 
with a dolphin in English involves two main parts: (1) the dolphin 
must learn how to physically say the words, and (2) he must learn 

the meaning of what he is saying. These two parts may be worked 
out individually or simultaneously. 

5. One first step is the creation and the maintenance of the mutual 
trust and reciprocal rewards one for the other. 



















































Figure 1. Schema of the Levels of the Functional Organization of the Human Biocomputer 


Each part of each level has feedback-control relations with each other part, 
indicated by the connecting lines. Each level has feedback-control with each 
other level. For the sake of schematic simplicity, many of these feedback 
connections are not shown. One example is an important connection between 
Levels Vi and X; some built-in, survival programs have a representation at 
the “Metaprogram Level which places a representative at the Supra-self-meta- 
program Level as follows “These programs are necessary for survival; do not 
attenuate or excite them to extreme values, such extremes lead to non-computed 
actions. penalties, illness, or death.”’ After construction, such a Metaprogram 
is transferred by the Self-metaprogram to the Supra-self-metaprogram for future 
contro! purposes. 

The boundaries between the body and the external reality are between Levels ! 
and 11; certain energies and materials pass this boundary in special places 
(heat, light, sound, food. secretions, feces). Boundaries between body and brain 
are between Levels II and Ill; special structures pass this boundary (blood 
vessels, nerve fibers. cerebro-spina! fluid). Levels IV through X are in the brain 
circuitry and are the software of the Biocomputer. 

Levels above Level X are labled ‘’Unknown'’ for the following purposes: 

{1} to maintain the openness of the system, (2) to motivate future scientific 
research, (3) to emphasize the necessity for unknown factors at all! levels, 
{4} to point out the heuristic nature of this schema, (5) to emphasize unwilling- 
ness to subscribe to any dogmatic belief without testable hardnosed reproducible 

















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Information 


The September 1966 issue of Scientific American was 
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Logic and Memory”, “Computer Inputs and Outputs”, 
“Systems Analysis and Programming”, “Time-sharing on 
Computers”, “The Transmission of Computer Data”, “The 
Uses of Computers in Technology”, “The Uses of Computers 
in Organizations”, “The Uses of Computers in Education”, 
“Information Storage and Retrieval”, and “Artificial 
Intelligence”. 















The computer is almost exactly what man is not. It is capable of 
paying undivided attention to unlimited detail; it is immune to 
distraction, precise and reliable; it can carry out the most intricate 
and lengthy calculation with ease, without a flaw and in much less 
than a millionth of the time that would be required by its human 
counterpart. It is emotionless, or so we suppose. It suffers neither 
boredom nor fatigue. It needs to be told only once; thereafter it 
remembers perfectly until it is told to forget, whereupon it forgets 
instantly and absolutely. 





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In the analysis of the effects of LSD-25 on the human mind, 

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human computer is to introduce “white noise” (in the sense of 
randomly varying energy containing no signals of itself) in specific 
systems in the computer 


The increase in “white noise” energy allows quick and random access 
to memory and lowers the threshold to unconscious memories 

(“expansion of consciousness”). In such noise one can project almost 
anything at almost any cognitive level in almost any allowable mode... 


The noise introduced brings a certain amount of disorder with it, 
even as white noise in the physical world brings randomness. 
Howver, the LSD-25 noise randomizes signals only in a limited way: 
not enough to destroy all order, only enough to superimpose a small 
creative ‘jiggling’ on program materials and metaprograms and their 
signals. 


In the complete physical absence of other external computers within 
the critical interlock distance, the self-directed and other-directed 
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Cybernetics 


McLuhan’s assertion that computers constitute an extension 
of the human nervous system is an accurate historical 
statement. The research and speculation that led to computer 
design arose from investigation of healthy and pathological 
human response patterns embodied in the topological 
make-up of the nervous system. Insights here soon expanded 
into generalizations about communication that permitted the 
building of analogous electronic devices physically separate 
from the Central Nervous System. But they're just one artifact 
of these new understandings about communication. Society, 
from organism to community to civilization to universe, is 

the domain of cybernetics. Norbert Wiener has the story, 

and to some extent, is the story. 


To predict the future of a curve is to carry out a certain operation on 
its past. 


The central nervous system no longer appears as a self-contained 
organ, receiving inputs from the senses and discharging into the 
muscles. On the contrary, some of its most characteristic activities 
are explicable only as circular processes, emerging from the nervous 
system into the muscles, and re-entering the nervous system through 
the sense organs, whether they be proprioceptors or organs of the 
special senses. This seemed to us to mark a new step in the study 
of that part of neurophysiology which concerns not solely the 
elementary processes of nerves and synapses but the performance of 
the nervous system as an integrated whole. 


The feedback of voluntary activity is of this nature. We do not will 
the motions of certain muscles, and indeed we generally do not 
know which muscles are to be moved to accomplish a given task; 
we will, say, to pick up a cigarette. Our motion is regulated by some 
measure of the amount by which it has not yet been accomplished. 


| have spoken of the race. This is really too broad a term for the 
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outside with the number of decisions made in the group. We can thus 
measure the autonomy of the group. A measure of the effective size 
of a group is given by the size which it must have to have achieved a 
certain stated degree of autonomy. 


Thus small, closely knit communities have a very considerable measure 
of hoemeostatis; and this, whether they are highly literate communities 
in a civilized country or villages of primitive savages. Strange and even 
repugnant as the custom of many barbarians may seem to us, they 
generally have a very definite homeostatic value, which it is part of the 
function of anthropologists to interpret. It is only in the large 
community, where the Lords of Things as They Are protect themselves 
from hunger by wealth, from public opinion by privacy and anonymity, 
from private criticism by the laws of libel and the possession of the 
means of communication, that ruthlessness can reach its most sublime 
levels. Of all of these anti-homeostatic factors in society, the control 

of the means of communication is the most effective and most 
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Cybernetics - or Control and Communication in the 
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To use a biological analogy, the parallel system had a better 
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We thus see that a non-linear interaction causing the attraction of 
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Eye and Brain 


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ij} \ Stratton went on to perform other experiments which though less 

{ well-known are just as interesting. He devised a mirror arrangement 

\ \ | which, mounted in a harness, visually displaced his own body, so that 

it appeared horizontally in front of him, and at the height of his own 

}/ eyes, Stratton wore this mirror arrangement for three days (about 

\~ ¥ twenty-four hours of vision) and he reported: 

| “| had the feeling that | was mentally outside my own body. 

| |} It was, of course, but a passing impression, but it came 

| several times and was vivid while it lasted... But the moment 

{ critical interest arose, the simplicity of the state was gone, and 
= my visible actions were accompanied by a kind of wraith of 

themselves in the older visual terms. 


Why should the perceptual system be as active in seeking alternative 
solutions as we see it to be in ambiguous situations? Indeed it seems 
more active, and more intellectually honest in refusing to stick with 
one of many possible solutions, then in the cerebral cortex as a whole- 
if we may judge by the tenecity of irrational belief in politics or 
religion. The perceptual system has been of biological significance for 
far longer than the calculating intellect, The regions of the cerebral 
cortex concerned with thought are comparatively juvenile. They are 
self-opinionated by comparison with the ancient striate area 
responsible for vision. 

Held found that only the active kitten developed perception, the 


passive animal remaining effectively blind. He thus suggested that 
active touch is essential to perceptual development. 





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television camera 


An elaboration of the television technique makes it possible to 
displace retinal images not only in space, but in time. Temporal 
delay of images is a new kind of displacement, and promises to be of 
the greatest importance. The method is to use a TV camera and 
monitor, with an endless tape loop so that there is a time-delay 
between the recording from the camera and the playback to the 
monitor. The subject thus sees his hands (or any other object) in 

the past; the delay being set by the gap between the Record and 
Play-back heads. 


This situation is not only of theoretical interest, but is also of 
practical importance because controls used in flying aircraft, and 
operating many kinds of machine, have a delay in their action: if 
such delay upsets the skill, this could be a serious matter. It was 
found that a short delay (about 0-5 seconds) made movements jerky 
and ill co-ordinated, so that drawing became almost impossible, and 
writing quite difficult. Practice gives little or no improvement. 


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Design for a Brain 


This is a reputation review. Ashby’s book is found prominent 
in the bibliography and footnotes of every text we’ve seen on 
computers and the mind. It's technical going to read but 
worth it for the insights of prime work. 


Finding an optimum is a much more complex operation than finding 

a value that is acceptable (according to a given criterion), Thus, 
suppose a man comes to a foreign market containing a hundred kinds 
of fruit that are quite new to him. To find the optimum for his 

palate he must (1) taste all the hundred; (2) make at least ninety-nine 
comparisons, and (3) remember the results so that he can finally go 
back to the optimal form. On the other hand, to find a fruit that is 
acceptable he need merely try them in succession or at random 
(taking no trouble to remember the past), stopping only at the first 
that passes the test. To demand the optimum, then, may be excessive; 
all that is required in biological systems is that the organism finds a 
state or a value between given limits. 


The development of life on earth must thus not be seen as something 
remarkable. On the contrary, it was inevitable. It was inevitable in 

the sense that if a system as large as the surface of the earth, basically 
polystable, is kept gently simmering dynamically for five thousand 
million years, then nothing short of a miracle could keep the system 
away from those states in which the variables are aggregated into 
intensely self-preserving forms. 


This is the learning mechanism. Its peculiarity is that the gene- 
pattern delegates part of its contro! over the organism to the 
environment. Thus, it does not specify in detail how a kitten 
shall catch a mouse, but provides a learning mechanism and a 
tendency to play, so that is the mouse which teaches the kitten 
the inner points of how to catch mice. 





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This book is listed under “Communication” rather than 
“Learning” because Fuller is mainly concerned with access 
in this book: designing ready access to comprehensive and 
replicable information and designing mobility as the basis 
of education. 


| would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education 
is going to be number one amongst the great world industries, within 
which will flourish an educational machine technology that will provide 
tools such as the individually selected and articulated two-way TV and 
an intercontinentally net-worked, documentaries call-up system, 
operative over any home two-way TV set. 


We also find that generally speaking The geographically larger the 
physical task to be done, the duller the conceptual brain that is 
brought to bear upon the integration of the scientific discoveries 
and their technically realized applications. Finally, we get to inter- 
national affairs, and you know what is happening today. 


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Intelligent Life in the Universe 


Methodically blow your mind. The information in this book, 
mutually massaged by the American and Soviet co-authors, 
proceeds from superb introductions to evolutionary astronomy 
and biology, through a complete presentation of recent 
discoveries of astronomy and space science, to brilliant 
speculation on the parameters of inter-civilization communi- 
cation. It's the best general astronomy book of recent years 
but that's nothing next to its impact on all the biggest 
questions we know. 


The existence of more than one universe is impossible, by definition. 


In our discussion up to this point, we have considered only interstellar 
radio contact among Civilizations at or just slightly beyond our present 
state of technical advance. Yet the bulk of technical civilizations in the 
universe may be immensely more advanced than ours — perhaps even 
billions of years beyond. The Soviet astrophysicist N.S. Kardashev, an 
an associate of |.S. Shlovskii at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 
has considered the possibility of the detection of signals from such 
greatly advanced civilizations. He classifies possible technologically 
advanced civilizations In three categories: (I) A level of technological 
advance close to that of the contemporary terrestial civilization. The 
rate of energy consumption is about 4 X 10”°ergs sec”. (II) A 
civilization capable of utilizing and channeling the entire radiation 
output of its star. The energy utilization would then be comparable 

to the luminosity of our Sun, about 4 X 1033 ergs per second. In 
Chapter 34, we will consider a specific proposal for the harnessing of 
such power. (Ill) A civilization with access to the power comparable 
to the luminosity of an entire galaxy, some 4 X 1044 ergs per second. 


Taken at face value, the legend suggests that contact occurred between 
human beings and a non-human civilization of immense powers on the 
shores of the Persian Gulf, perhaps near the site of the ancient Sumerian 
city of Eridu, and in the fourth millenium B.C. or earlier. There are 

three different but cross-referenced accounts of the Apkallu dating 

from classical times. 


Almost any other of the many accounts of alleged contacts of human 
beings with the crews of flying saucers — accounts which regale the 
flying saucer societies — follow the same pattern and stress the same 
points. The extraterrestials are human, with few even minor physical 
differences from local cosmetic standards. (I know of no case of Negro 
saucerians, or Oriental saucerians, reported in the United States; but 
there are very few flying saucer reports made in this country by 
Negroes or by Orientals.) 








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The information contained in a single human sperm cell is equivalent 
to that of 133 volumes, each of the size and fineness of print of 
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. 





So, by an interesting coincidence, the distances between the stars in 
interstellar space, relative to their diameters, are just about the same 

as the distances between the atoms and molecules in interstellar space, 
relative to their diameters. Interstellar space is as empty as a Cubical 
building, 60 miles long, 60 miles wide, and 60 miles high, containing 

a single grain of sand. 


Radio astronomers may be interested to know that the so-called 
“brightness temperature” of the Earth at television wavelengths is 
some hundreds of millions of degrees. This is 100 times greater than 
the radio brightness of the sun at comparable wavelengths, during a 
period of low sunspot activity. 


V7 An advanced technical civilization is trying to communicate with us. But 
how can we possibly understand what they are saying? They are not likely to speak 
English or Russian. They have had a different evolutionary history, They are on a 
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But how can a natural satellite have such a low density? The material 
of which it is made must have a certain amount of rigidity, so that 
cohesive forces will be stronger than the gravitational tidal forces of 
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Deimos as well — may be artificial satellites of Mars. 


“Well, ladies and gentlemen,” Struve concluded, “it was pretty dull on 
Episilon Eridani and Tau Ceti eleven years ago." 





With 10"' stars in our Galaxy and 109 other galaxies, there are at 

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The Technique of Documentary Film Production 


























American Cinematographer American Cinematographer 











Accurate, specific information on what's new in equipment, $6.00 for one year (monthly) Try not to be put off by the word “documentary.” 
techniques, standards, and the attitudes of technicians using 
them. Also gossip and news about who's doing what where. 


Covers all aspects of professional filmaking from Hollywood e. ; 5 . 


This is a book for times when you are starved for some lean 
and specific information. It covers all conventional aspects 
of filmaking: subtle items, which can really best be learned 
by the experience of seeing and working on films (use of 
dissolves, effect of different lens lengths, etc.); necessary 
conventions, like systems of marking workprints, and 
technical facts about equipment; and the hundreds of little 
hints and tricks, some whimsical some incredibly mundane, 
which technicians have hit upon by trial, error and inspiration 
over the years. All of these are discussed in the same thorough, 
detached, insensitive way. But at least the basic information 
is there so you can get it if you need it. This book will not 
help you to learn filmaking — you'll have to bring along the 
enthusiasm and involvement — so start filming and then use 
it when you have to. [Reviewed by Sandra Tcherepnin] 


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The ads, fully as important as the text, are mouthwatering fi AMERICAN 
inematographer 


for those with an appetite for Eclairs and such. 


If you read it regularly you'll never need Baddeley — you'll 
know how it's really done, Often the information is 

directly and simply usable; sometimes it stimulates visions 
of the super-cinema of the future. When in school | 
consulted back issues for a psychology paper on perception 
The articles are really interesting and, best of all, there is 
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Question: In what unusual ways did you utilize the telephoto 
lenses you mentioned earlier? 


Wexler: The 400mm lens was especially useful in the polo 

sequence because it focuses down to 15 feet. We were able to focus 
on something very sharply at 15 feet and then, by throwing the focus 
back to something at infinity, make the foreground object literally 

| disappear. We used that effect, forward in reverse, several times 
For example, the opening scene of the polo sequence is a shot of 
thundering horses’ hooves, over-cranked for slow motion, with heat 
waves shimmering through the frame. Then, as they come toward 
you, the focus goes to a polo ball which literally fills the frame, and 
there's a sharp “whack” as the mallet drives it out of frame. It 
makes a pretty good beginning for the sequence. 


On the streets and 

in the buildings of 
Boston, a Hollywood 
motion picture crew 
films sequences for 

a high-style tale of 

* bank robbery for kicks 


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CONVENTIONAL CUTTING ROOM 
SIGNS. 1. Unintentional join. 2. Un- 
intentional joins made to insert a 
patch replacing a damaged portion of 
work-print. Ignore when matching 
master, 3. Extended scene. 4. Fade 
out and fade in. 5. Dissolve. These 
signs are drawn onthe work-print by 
the editor, usually with a Chinagrap! 
pencil, to guide the person matching 
the master, 





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if we see a man in medium shot and then take a closer look at him 

in close-up, he must be in the same position in both shots — or, to be 
more precise, he must be in the same position at the end of the 
medium shot as when we cut to him at the beginning of the close up. 
In real life this would automatically be so; when we film him we must 
somehow ensure that it is so despite the fact that, in changing our lens 
or camera position, there has been a lapse of time. On the face of it, 
this point appears obvious. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that 
many beginners fail to appreciate it and assemble their shots with 
serious continuity errors between them, thinking that the audience 

will not be bothered by them. 


“This dimension represents the length of any 100 consecutive perforation intervals. 





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American Cinematographer Manual 











Indispensable data book, used by american cinematographers. 
Expensive, because it is absolutely comprehensive, up to date, 
from Hollywood, and has no competitors 


Avoiding Paper Rustle 


There is, for instance, that very basic requirement of ensuring that 

the turning of pages or the rustling of the script is not picked up by 

the microphone. This is usually got around by mounting the pages 

of the script separately on cardboard. There is still the problem of 

; > how to attach the sheets to the boards. Rubber bands are commonly 

Joseph V. Mascelli, A.S.C., ed. : an 600 pocket-size pages of used, but they can become caught in the adjacent board and emit a 

600 pp. c “ig is as Bt ive text loud “twang”! Paper clips are an alternative, but there is a great 

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niques in ! this may take longer. An ingenious alternative is to type the script 

Mey wor { » the ede on blotting paper which will not, of course, rustle. The drawback 

4 here is that it is not easy to take a carbon copy when typing on 
blotting paper — unless the blotting paper is the carbon copy, in which 
event the commentator may not find it clear enough to read. 







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The Techniques of Television Production 


I'm coming to believe that good how-to 

writing mostly depends on good diagramming. 
Millerson has mastered that, so you're inclined 
to believe that he knows his television. 
Certainly he covers the ground in a thorough 
fashion: studio layout, TV picture and 

camera, TV lighting, sound, film reproduction, 
sets, make-up, organization, imagery, camera 
control, editing, sound composition, production 
method, titling, effects, and color. The book 
can make a more critical viewer of you. Or 

it can give you some skill to go with the 

power when you demand and get some control 
of the half-hour educational program about 
your scene. 


INSTRUCTIONS TO SWITCHER (vision mixer) 


Instructions Meaning 


Take one: Cut to One 

Cut One 

Fade-up Two 

Stand by to fade Two 

Ready to fade Two 

Fade: fade out: fade to black 
full, to zero, 

Stand by to mix: dissolve Two 

Mix to Two: dissolve to Two 


Superimposing Three: ready to 
super Three 
Superimpose: add Three 


Take Two out: lose Two 





Turn Camera 2's video-fader up from zero to full, 
Prepare to fade Camere 2’s picture out. 


Turn transmitted camera's video-fader down from 


Warning before mixing-cue 

Mix from present camera being transmitted, to 
Camera 2's picture. 

Warning before superimposition-cue. 


Fade Camera 3's picture up. adding it to existing 
sources. 
Remove (usually fade) Camera 2's picture from 
transmission; leaving the rest. 


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Gerald Millerson 
1961; 1968; 440 pp. 


CROWDS can be simulated by using selective viewpoints (Jeft) and carefully positioned 
subjects crowded together along the lens axis (centre). Also by augmenting subjects 
with a background of a crowd scene (moving back-projection, photo-mural, painted 
cloth) or using dummy or cut-out foreground figures (right). 





Auto Repair Manual 


Said to be the standard of the business, 
Chilton’s Auto Repair Manual comes out 

yearly in the Fall (1969 is just out), but it 

covers American cars since 1960 (including 
Volkswagen). Covers indeed: in addition to 
sections on trouble shooting and repair of 
various units (alignment, brakes, carburetor, 
clutch, starter, steering, suspension, etc.), 
there is about 30 pages on each make of car 
(37 in all). If you're not interested in Detroit, 
Chilton publishes individual manuals authored 
by Harold T. Glenn on foreign cars, VW ($3.95), 
trouble shooting ($1.95), as well as a non-Glenn 
“Motorcycle Repair and Tune-up Guide” ($3.95). 
[Hey, would somebody out there mind telling 

us the difference between Glenn's Auto Repair 
Manual ($9.95) published by Chilton, and 
Chilton’s Auto Repair Manual ($11.00)?] 


[Suggested by Jay Baldwin. 
Reviewed by Know Nothing] 








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Worn pilot bearing in crankshaft 

Bent transmission shaft 

Worn high speed sliding gear 

Worn teeth in clutch shaft 

Insufficient spring tension on shifter 
rail plunger 

Bent or loose shifter fork. 

End play in clutch shaft 

Gears not engaging completely 

Loose or worn bearings on clutch 
shaft or main shaft. 


STICKING IN HIGH GEAR 


Clutch not releasing fully 

Burred or battered teeth on clutch 
shaft. 

Burred or battered transmission main 
shaft 

Frozen synchronizing cluteh 

Stuck shifter rail plunger. 

Gear shift lever twisting and binding 
shifter rail. 

Battered teeth on high speed sliding 
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Lack of lubrication. 

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Corroded transmission parts. 

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Books 


What we have here is the first hip trade journal. “Books” is 


a scruffy newspaper made from somewhere inside the world 


of publishing. It pirates good stuff from new and interesting 
books almost as baldly as the CATALOG, and it revels in 


downtown gossip of who’s happening. Good source of news 


about the intellectual wing of the current political- 
theatrical upwelling. 





“Now that ’'m here, where am I?” 


—Janis Joplin, West Coast blues-rock star after 
a stunning debut in New York, where it counts. 





The seminal book of 1969 will be Al- 
vin Toffler’s “Future Shock,” published 
by Random House. No firm publication 
date has been set. 


“Ho Chi Minh’s Daughter” 

~~"I have learned my English in 
bed. I mean it. Because I use to read 
many books, in bed. Because I use to 
listen to what my clients say, in bed.”— 
is at last being published. 
dost Means pte 
graphs prepared by graduate schoo! of 


Fine Arts of the U. of Pennsylvania. 
Grossman $5.00. 


Birth of a Notion 


Future shock is a time phenomenon, 
the dizzying psychological shock suf- 
fered by people when they are forced 
to adapt and re-adapt repeatedly to an 
accelerating pace of changes in society. 
Hippies, Mr. Toffler writes, are already 
suffering from future shock. 

Cass Elliot — I've never had my 
chemistry changed by a movie before 
as it was by “2001.” 


Books 
Jerome Agel, ed. 


$3.00 for one year (monthly). 
Vidal's “Myra Breckinridge,” Bantam 
PP pe Books has purchased for $1500 the 16- 
; * dison Avenue foot-high, 500-pound fiberglass statue in 
_— Hollywood that was photographed for 
the book cover and plans to tour it 


+s Pian 


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Pooks 4 coast-to-coast, then offer it to a New 
BOOKS/March, 1968 3 pboncs York museum, The statue was used to 


edvertise the Sahara Hotel of Las Vegas. 
Bantam considered a “Myra Breckin- 
ridge contest,” with the winner getting 
4 round-trip to Denmark. but decided 


Jester oofee? ain 





The Blue Meanie 


Arthur C, Clarke's “Childhood’s End” 


and Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a 
Strange Land” have been optioned for 
the movies . . 


BOOKS/March, 1968 5 


—From "The Wind in the Willows" 


“The Poetry of Motion! The REAL way to travel! The ONLY way to travel! 


Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and _ cities 


jumped — always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! 


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Subject Guide to Books in Print 
Annually in the Fall; 2724 pp. (1967) 





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Subject Guide to Forthcoming Books 


$7.50 for one year (bi-monthly) 


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We use it; maybe you can. In one fat book are all the titles 
in print, along with cost and publisher, listed by subject 
category. Addresses or publishers are given in the front of 
the book. Outside of a library, there’s no better way to find 
out what's available in a particular area. If you're trying to 
Stay current in your field, the bi-monthly Subject Guide to 
Forthcoming Books may be preferable. 


Art Prints “= 


Since 1949 UNESCO has been trying to update and inter- 
nationalize the world of Art Prints. They have a central 
archives of prints, and a committee of experts who decide 
which prints to include in their catalogs. The criteria are: 
quality of print, significance of the painter, and importance 
of the painting. 


There are two UNESCO print catalogs: Catalogue of Colour 
Reproductions of Paintings Prior to 1860 and the same of 
paintings 1860 to 1965. Both are understandably limited 

in scope by what quality prints are available. Paintings 1860 
to 1965, the only one on hand to review, is further limited 

by the imbalanced outdated European standard used to 
select the 1590 prints presented. 225 painters are repre- 
sented, allowing approximately 7 prints per painter. Yet 
there are 92 Picassos, 72 Renoirs, 61 Klees, 25 Manets, 

50 Monets, 18 Kokoshkas(?) 18 Legers(?) and 36 Dufys(!) 
etc. Hence: 1 Dali, 1 Duchamp, 1 Ernst, 1 Wyeth, 0 De 
Chiricos. Further: questionable selection among 5 Magritte 
and 6 Munch. Not represented are contemporary Americans 
Albers through Zavorskas. 


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ABCs of Electron Test Equipment Smith D A rev 
ed Aug 1968 pap 295 Sams 

Advanced Techniques tor Troubleshooting with the 
Oscilloscope Goodman, R L Nov 10. 1968 
795 pap 495 GL TAB Bks 

Advenced & Extra Class Amateur License Mandtook 


ECT GUIDE TO 
PRINT, USA. 


Pyle HS Jnded Aug 1968 pap 350. Sama 
Aiain Resnats & the Theme ol Time Ward. J Aug 9 
1968 495 pap 295 Doublertay 


Anglo American Microelectromes Equipment Data 






1968 1969, 2 Vols Ed by Dummer G W & 
Robertson J M Aug 1968 4600 «a. 90 00 cet 
Pergamon 

Antennas i Inhomogeneous Media Galeys J Aug 
1968 1200 Petgamor 

At & Scvence of Photography Newhall, 8 et al date not 
set pap. 2 95. Century Hse 

Broadcast Station Operating Guide Rolin S Sep 
20,1968 S96 pap TAB Bks 

} Chore of Weapons Parks G (YA) Nov 1988 pap 

o7 Nabie 

Classical Network Theory Belewtch V Sep. 1968 


1575 Holden. Day 

Closec Circuit TV for Engineers & Technician: 
Showalter. C Oct 1968 85 Sams 

Colt TV Servicing, Buchsbaum 2nd od Jul 10. 1968 
995 PH 

Commurcations with Electrcity-Clectronics Culpepper 
M A {€thy) Nov 22. 1968. price not set McKnight 

Computer Programming Principles, Vol, 2. Fortram 
Wimmert, 8 J Sep 1, 1968 pap 4.96. HRAW 

Computer Programming Principies, Voi 2) Mac! ne 
Assembly Language Wimmer, R J Sep 1. 1968 
pap 495". HRAW 

Data Acquisiton & Processing in & Medicine 
Vol 5 Ed by Ensiein. K Aug. 1968. 16 00 
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Catalogue of Color 
Reproductions 
of Paintings 
Prior to 1860 


Out of place are three Australian aboriginal paintings. 


Much is missing from this catalog yet it can still be useful. 
It lists only quality prints. Each entry includes the painters 
name, place and dates of his birth and death, a black & white 


photo of the painting, its name, date, medium, size and the Catalogue of Color 


collection in which it rests. The printing process, printer Repr oductions 
(when possible) and publisher are given for each reproduction of Paintings 
as well as the UNESCO archives number, dimensions and 1860-1965 
price (in currency of country where published when possible). 

Also there are lists of publishers and printers and information 1S Be 


on purchasing prints. 
$7.00 each, postpai 
Catalogs are triligual in French/English/Spanish and all 


dimensions are given in both inches and centimeters. fre Gia 





Avenue South 


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=<, N.Y. 10010 


empty space — try these catalogs. [Reviewed by Joe Bonner] 





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Electrical & Liectrome Signs & Symbots. Middleton. RF 
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Electrical Instatianans Technology Whitfreld, » 
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Electronic Cable Handbook Beiden Manu‘ octuring 


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Company Engineering Staff 2nd ed *¢, 1968 pap 
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1968 7 00O:pap. 6.00. Pergamon 

Electrones for the Beginner. Staniey, J, A 2nd ed. Sep. 
1968 pap 395 Sams 

Etectromes Handbook for the Electrician Sands, L G 
Oct. 1968 595 Chilton 

Equidensitomewy Lau. £ & Krug W Nov 
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Expansion Joints in Bridges & Roads. Koster, W. Nov, 
1968 2950 Transatlantic 

Exposure Record. Adams. A Jul 15, 1968. lea. spirai 
bdg 495 Morgan 

Faces of Japan A Photographic Study Lensen, G A 
Nov 1968 3000 Diplomatic 

Faces of Japon A Photegrapiuc Stady Lensen, G A. itd 
ed. Noc, 1968 27.50 Diplomatic 

Faoults in Photography Causes & Cotectives. Fritsche 
« Sep, 1968. 12 50. Hastings 

Flt Maker's Guide Branston, B Ju! 1968 6.75 
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From Etecttoms to Powe: AC’ DC Woolman, M. & 
Valentine, C G Jul, 1968. texted 9 20. Glencoe 

Fun with Tape Staal, J G Aug, 1968 595. AS 
Barnes 

Golden Web A History of Broadcasting in the United 
States, Volume 2 1933-1953. Barnouw, E Oct 3} 
1968 900 Oxford U Pr 

Gorden Parks A Poet & His Camera Parks. G. Intro. by 
P Kunbacdt Je Pret by S. Spender Nov 21, 1968 
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The Modern Utopian 


Intentional communities by now constitute 

a realm of activity worth having a magazine. 
This is the magazine, and it is very good. Dick 
Fairfield, who edits Modern Utopian, clearly 
has knowledge of the traditions behind 
intentional communities as well as notions 
about their possible futures. His information 
network is broad, so reports of current 
communities are wide as well as deep. As 
we're going to press, Modern Utopian is 
organizing an information service for 
individuals wanting to find a community to 
suit them and vice versa. 


Starting a community farm is an incredibly 
difficult thing. We didn't fully realize this 
when we began. Setting up a new farm -- or 
rather, rehabilitating an old and neglected 
one -- was at least a season's work, Not to 
mention compensating for the work which 
should have been done the previous autumn. 


$4.00 
SOUTH AMERICA TAKE IT AWAY 


In the Chaco of Paraguay, fertile land is almost 
free, taxes are low, government interference is 
small, Some groups operating communities 
there, such as the pacifist Bruderhof, are granted 
a 10-year exemption from certain import tariffs, 
and permanent exemption from conscription by the 
military. Immigrant Group Settlements in Paraguay 
is a good book by a professor at Bethel College, a 
Mennonite school in Kansas. 

The cool Brazilian highlands have less fertility 
than the Chaco, but the climate is better, as are 
the political and cultural environment. Land 
300 miles north of the new capitol, Brasilia, sells 
for $2 an acre, taxes are low, tariff exemptions 
are granted, and U.S. citisems have the same rights 
as Brazilians. Fall-out is less in the Southern 
Hemisphere. For free brochure on Brazil land, 
write Selig Bros, Real Estate Co., P.O. Box 26034, 
Indianapolis, Ind, 46224, 

~-Gerald Baker, 


for one year (bi-monthly) 






The Modern Utopian / A Way Out from: 
Dick Fairfield, ed. 


26 


Dear Friends, 
| have spent over twenty years in what is now called 
the “Hippie Movement”, living in short-lived 
communes based on an anarchistic freedom and 
long-lived communes based on religion, taking 
part in political activities such as CORE work in the 
early 50’s and the political action era of the Sexual 
Freedom League, and writing for, drawing for and 
editing little literary reviews and underground news- 
papers. This experience has brought me, gradually 
and reluctantly, to certain conclusions that I’m pretty 
Sure some of your readers will dispute, yet to me 
they seem inescapable. 
First, those communities based on freedom inevitably 
fail, usually within a year. 
Second, those communities based on authority, part- 
icularly religious authority, often endure and survive 
even against vigorous opposition from the outside 
world. (The best example of the strength of religious 
authoritarian communism is the monasteries and 
nunneries of the Catholic Church.). . . 
How, then, can an intentional community possibly be 
superior to conventional society? If the intentional 
community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian, 
and if it is authoritarian, it offers no more freedom 
then conventional society. | am not pleased with 
this conclusion, but it now seems to me that the 
only way to be free is to be alone. 

ORO, El Cerito, Calif. 


Whether it is guarding a shrine, making electric music, applying Gestalt 


Thitearn Utopian 
*onte Avenue 
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Therapy or feeding transient hippies, all viable communities have a conscious in- 
tent and meaningful function. As opposed to the lack of meaningful direction in 

today’s American society, a conscious sense of purpose is the actualizing force if 
the community is to be more than a particularization of the social malaise it seeks 









to answer, Functions may change, sometimes with a rapidity which causes mis- 


under standing within the community; these 
changes, how they occur, and the control 
of change must be understood through- 
out the community. 





The Realist Green Revolution 
lf The Realist is the father of recent 
underground newspapers, Green Revolution 

is the mother of community newsletters. 

Both are kind. 


The Realist 


Paul Krassner, ed. 


Green Revolution 
Mildred Loomis, ed 


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American Communities, by 
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Communitas, by Paul Good- 
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Stranger in a Strange Land, by 
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GRAINS IN A LARGE CAN — MLK — THIS CAN WILL 
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"Dinner begins with a song followed by a short 
meditative silence. Sometimes a record is played, or 
the news listened to, During dinner we report on 
the day's happenings at our jobs, things we've 
read, and discuss the news, Around dessert we 
share the day's mail, Then dishes and lunch- 
packing. Usually Connie and Rae--either separately 
or together--prepare dinner, The men usually either 
wash or rinse dishes. Connie packs lunches one 
week, Rae the next. 


Planning, and even engineering, are there- 
fore vital to the community. Skinner put an archi- 
tect into the original planning group of his Walden 
Il. Even if behavioral engineering is not to be a 
community concern, design must be considered, 
for defense against the state if for no other 
reason. But the real benefits are deeper. The 
established architecture of today, as exemplified 
by the code, has failed, and no longer creates 
viable environments for man. The new communi- 
ties must design for a new life for man, and only 
through them can a new architecture of living 
and expanding be achieved. 


All Watched over by 
Machines of Loving Grac 


I like to think (and 

the sooner the better!) 

of a cybernetic meadow 

where mammals and computers 
live together in mutually 
programming harmony 

like pure water 

touching clear sky. 




















































I like to think 
(right now, please!) 
of a cybernetic forest 
‘Med with pines and electronics 
where deer stroll peacefully 
past computers 
as if they were flowers 
with spinning blossoms. 












The Realist 
Community 4} 

I like to think / 
(it has to bel) 

of a cybernetic ecology 

where we are free of our labors 

and joined back to nature, 

returned to our mammal 

brothers and sisters, 

and all watched over 

by machines of loving grace. The Realist 






IV. America a nation so incredibly wealthy in 1968 that 
all morality is based on EXCESS: 
true American career counselors now ask only one ques- 
tion. 
“De you want to produce garbage or do you want to col- 
lect garbage?” 
Industrialist or politician? 
Fishfarm or junkyard? 
The young people want no part of it, of course, what with 
garbage their natural matrix & medium. 
Produce it? 
Collect it? 
They want to fuck in it! 
The career counselors build marvelous constructions of 
seduction & mystery, they trans-substantiate symbol money 
into sex 
into power 
into death insurance 
inte pleasure. 
But it’s just THINGS, it’s garbage, it’s overflow & the 
young people know it. 
They throw the career counselor out the window. 
Who’s going to collect the garbage? 
who knows? 
who cares? 
Let's use it to act out our fantasies, use it for unimagi- 
rable gratifications. . 
The Realist 











Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia Dune 


A more recent Hugo Award winner than 
Stranger in a Strange Land, Dune is rich 
re-readable fantasy with clear portrayal of the 
fierce environment it takes to cohere a 
community. It's been’ enjoying currency in 
Berkeley and saltier communities such as 


Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia Libre. The metaphor is ecology. The theme 


Melford E. Spiro : 
1956, 1963; 266 pp. revolution. 


This book is a straight forward description on 
one Kibbutz. It is the history, the problems, 
and the moral codes of a community which 
began in 1920 and has grown steadily since 
that time. Over a span of several generations 
it has grappled with problems, both economic 
and social, which are similar to problems faced 
by the community movement in the United 
States today. 





$2 25 4 Too late, Jessica saw what was happening: the old 
ae postpaid woman was dying and, in dying, pouring her 
experiences into Jessica’s awareness as water is 
poured into a cup. The other mote faded back into 
from: J pre-birth awareness as Jessica watched it. And, 
wshegaex Books; inc. dying-in-conception, the old Reverend Mother left 


67 Byonue her life in Jessica’s memory with one last sighing 
Ne »-9 N.Y. 10016 
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WHOcc EARTH CATALOG 


The book examines critically and sympathet- 
ically the issues of property, marriage, educa- 
tion, comfort, and communication as it has 
been dealt with over the various period of 
this Kibbutz. 












While the book is of limited practical value as 
a how-to-do-it text, it offers a long term 
perspective on the difficulties and advantages 
of the community way of life. 


(Reviewed by James Fadiman] 


This is a community which was founded, for the 
most part, by middle-class intellectuals who 
deliberately chose to be workers. . . . Instead of 
aspiring to “rise” in the social ladder, they aspired 
to “descend”... . This Tolstoyan attitude toward 
work could be evolved, it is not hazardous to say, 
only by romantic, urban intellectuals. 





...the moral postulates of Kiryat Yedidim. . . are 
important not only because they constitute the 

basis for the social structure of the Kibbutz, but 
because they provide a clue to an important premise 
of its living: the premise that life is serious. It is 


His job becomes more than a job and more than a 

way of making a living. It becomes a sacred task, a 
calling, in the religious sense of the term, dedicated, 
not to the greater glory of God but to the welfare of 


serious because the realization of these values, ip GIO. 
rather than immediate pleasure or self-seeking, is Instead of cooking and sewing and baking and 
taken to be the purpose of living. cleaning and laundering and caring for children, the 


The notions of the movement were simple. They woman in Kiryat Yedidim cooks OR sews OR 





included a revolt against tradition; a love of nature; launders OR takes care of children for eight hours Dune 
a love of nation, which seemed to consist of a vague a day. She has become a specialist in one aspect of Frank Herbert 
mystique of the “folk”; self-expression; emphasis on housekeeping. But this new housekeeping is more 4965: eal 
the emotional aspect of life; the gospel of “joy in boring and less rewarding than the traditional type. : Pp. 
work.” The kibbutz, it will be remembered, was originally $.95 postpaid 
But this emphasis on youth and on the equality conceived as a means to an end — the creation of the 
that exists between the young and the old create a new man. Instead of the selfish, agressive personality 
potentiality for a condition of inequality — an created by urban capitalism, there would emerge, as »ks, Inc. 
inequality in which the young assume the superior, a result of the new social order, a kindly, altruistic enue of the Americas 
and the old the inferior, status. personality. This end has not been achieved, 5 <x, N.Y. 10036 





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Subjects under high fear found the task significantly 
more enjoyable than those in a low fear state. It 
was reasoned that individuals resolved their 
dissonance about being in the threatening situation 
by concluding that it was really a rewarding and 
enjoyable experience. 


OPEN MICROPHONES 
(MOUNTED ON OVERHEAD) 


Groups Under Stress 


This is a physiological study of the behavior 


of the three 10-man diver teams who spent The pattern of correlations is highly consistent 


and indicates that men from smaller towns reacted 








14 days 250 feet down in the Pacific in O mike 
SEALAB II. The teams lived and worked in fer [c } more favorably to the stressful conditions present. 
' me ht ; . a 
a 12x57 cylinder under high hazard and high °5 — On one occasion, a diver, in his squeaky Donald Duck 
public visibility conditions, Their perfor- abrir Sau capaci \ 1 , ; voice, said “| have a message for the earth people. 
mances were exemplary, and this book seeks (OPEN TO THE SEA) Fuck you!” 
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ical studies in the field. 13. Bench. 14. Lav. 13. Table and chairs. 16. Water beater. 17, Can stow'g. 18. Tub pi shower. een 


The question is why men are attracted to dangerous 
and demanding situations and why they make 
successful adjustments and perform well in highly 


The book is technical, but it may be useful to stressful situations; correspondingly, why they 


groups who wish to improve their perfor- reject, make poor adjustments and perform poorly 
mances on one frontier or another, or to in less stressful situations. 
leaders who are interested if highly motivated Then suddenly | realized that we made it. It was a 
teamwork, or to anyone wishing to analyse real sense of well being, by golly, something like the 
group doings. Northwest Passage on a very tiny scale. We made it 
and even though it was only 250 feet from the 
COSTS AND REWARDS IN EXOTIC ENVIRONMENTS habitat it was a real accomplishment. It was very 
pretty. It wasn’t pretty as far as the scenic value, Bs ae esas dua oh aR 
COST-REWARD MODEL but it was beautiful in that it was what we were 


fighting to get to. The canyon rim. 


. EVEREST People were nice to me than they were on the 

FUN STRONAUT . 

FAME SEALAB surface. And | was nicer to them than | am on the 

OCCUPATIONS surface. This SEALAB bunch, we have a hell of a Groups Uy 
UPPER LIMIT INITIAL high esprit de corps. We ail respect each other. And Piychological Research in SEALAB 1 
ouicoalee” STAGES HAZARDOUS this is something. Even though you hate a guy’s guts, 
DEMANDING you respect him. 

NORMALLY 108S | personally was amazed at how well we did get along 

EXPECTED under such cramped conditions. It seemed to me 

ede a everybody just went out of their way to be nice. - You 
were bumping into people and knocking their stuff 

over and they were bumping into you and knocking 

sped g your stuff over. It seems to me that everybody was 

OUTCOMES just overly polite about it because they realized this 

condition existed and if dissension ever once did get 


started it would spread like wildfire. 


. Ye d i ? s 
SF ARS OR RS Groups Under Stress-Psychological Research 
A. I censored my emotions. | don’t know about the in SEALAB II 


rest of the fellows. | sure did. 


Firstborns reported significantly higher fear and ead eee 
lower well being while logging less diving time : EP: 


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that is worse than when they go off and leave you 
costs ——> in a cravasse” (Rohrer, 1960) 





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DISTURBANCES IN ELECTROLYTE (Mineral) METABOLISM 

Dilutional hyponatremia will occur when excessive water is given toa 
patient in wham antidiuretic hormone activity (postoperatively, or in 
bronchogenic carcinoma, head injuries, or porphyria) or a low glomerular 
filtration rate is present. Movement of the water from cells in E.C.F. with 
glucose concentration may produce a temporary hyponatremia- 


In 1850 type-packed pages this book covers most of the possible 
illness and injuries that can occur to human beings. Each difficulty 
in described, symptoms are discussed and suggested treatments 
are indicated. 







The writing is extremely technical and is designed as a ready 
reference for practicing nurses and physicians. Unless you are 
at ease with the unusually colorful language of modern medicine 
you will need a medical dictionary to fully understand this book. 


ANTERIOR 
PITUITARY 











While a considerable portion of the advice given is sensible and 
does not require a doctor's presence, much of the book will not 
be of use to persons who do not have access to medical supplies. 
This book is not intended in any sense for primitive or simple 
living conditions; it does not describe alternatives if medical 
treatment is not available nor does it suggest folk treatments 
in lieu of hospitalization. However, if you want to understand 
what is going on when a member of your family or community 
is seriously ill, this volume can be helpful. There is an excellent 
index as well as a special section devoted to specific prescriptions 
and special therapies. The excerpts given below illustrate both 
the common-sense and the technical aspects of this volume. 
[Reviewed by James Fadiman] 


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[Innovator reports that many prescription drugs can be obtained 
without a prescription and at low cost from veterinary supply 
houses. — SB] 


ADRKENAI 3 
MEDULLA , — 


\DHENAT. CORTEX: 


The Merck Manual 
11th edition 1966; 1850 pp. 







DYSPEPSIA (“indigestion”) 

Treatment 

General: The patient should eat a balanced diet (see DIETS, Normal! Diet). 
At least 1 hr/meal should be allowed. Food should be chewed thoroughly 
without haste and not constantly ‘swilled down’ with liquids: When 
possible meals should be taken in a pleasant, quiet, relaxing environment 





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Symptoms and Signs: Onset may be sudden or may follow complaints 
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The temperature rises rapidly to 105 or 106 F. or higher. Convulsions 

and projectile vomiting may develop and are of serious import 

Treatment: heroic measures are indicated and must be instituted 
immediately. If the rectal temperature is 106 F. or over, an ice water 

tub bath or a blanket soaked in water is indicated, and the skin should 
be rubbed vigorously until the temperature falls. 






























Land for Sale 


If land's your fantasy, these two realty catalogs will give you 
the best idea of what are the prices you can expect in various regions 
of the U.S. and what sort of parcels are available. /f you're set 
on one particular region, of course, you're probably better off 
shopping the local word-of-mouth market 


United Farm Agency Catalog Strout Catalog Consumer Reports 


Free Free 

!f you're buying current models of anything you might as well 
frog bi get Consumer Reports and feel better about your choices. Like: 
Ue inemern Agency s 2alty here comes Christmas and Mom says what do you want and | say 
: bee Tee cents ; et Mom | want sound and she says What and | say wait a minute and 
ara /nther local offices a’ of lOGal SiiGes ! look at the CR Buying Guide and under record players it says 


the Acoustic Research XA is the best and also a best buy so /| say 
Mom | wan an AR XA it costs 78 bucks is that OK and she says 
m OK and everybody feels good and it didn’t take very long. 
Thank you Mom. Thank you Consumer Reports 


The magazine also carries procedural advice on how not to get 
stung in the consumer jungle. Plus you get to lobby vicariously 
against danger and untruth in products. 


Now what we need is a Consumer Reports of second-hand stuff. 


WATER-FRONT INN! 
No,966—1 acre, $23,000. Completely 
furnished and equipped  3-story 
Colonial inn offers outstanding po- 
tential for ski lodge, guest hotel 
or private school. 1 level acre with 

“TT 
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Consumer Reports 


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200-ft. frontage on picturesque lake 
with sandy beach. In smal! resort 
town, 1% miles to new interstate 
highway. within 3 miles of college, 
near 3 ski areas, 2-hour drive to 
Boston. Inn is in good repair, 21 
rooms, 18 bedrooms, 6 baths, alu- 
minum combination windows, base- 
ment, NEW baseboard hot-water 


for one year (monthly — December issue is Buying Guide) 


ts Union 
= rnon, N.Y. 10550 





heating syatem with 3 zones, NEW 
artesian well. Once-in-a-lifetime 
opportunity at only $23,000. UNIT- 


ED, Bradford, N. H ; 
United Farm Agency beautiful state ef Florida, The feader im the production of citrus 
ESTABLISHED HARDWARE crops and some market vegetables, Florida also wien with Western states 
No.122—$47,000. The only hardware in the production of beef cattle on inland ranches and grazing lands. 
store in a growing town! Estab- nti 


under FOR SUCCESSFUL FARMING! United Farm Agency 
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a 3 Includes 45 bead dairy cattle, 3 hogs in price 
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CROPS SAY ‘'TOPS"'! 

No. 311 - 234 ACRES - $50,000. Reputation 
for excellent corn, oats, hay production! Heavy 
loam soil - 130 acres tillable, 50 wooded. Well, 
Spring, creek for water. Well-maintained 7- 
room & bath 4-bedroom home w/part basement. 
34x86 drive-thru barn w/40 stanchions; 36x70 








present ownership for 9 years. 40x 


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80-ft. 2-story brick building. good 

condition. Hardware inventory in- furnace. 30x88 barn w/29 steel stanchions, barn 
cluded. 40x115-ft. lot. On state cleaner, milk house, 275-gallon bulk cooler; 
highway, 14 miles Syracuse. Dis- double pasting beers A hog house, 2 silos. 
ability prompts sale at $47,000 nearly new metal machine shed, tile 


UNITED, Sennett. N. ¥ 
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Government Publications 


Relatively expensive access to phenomenally inexpensive 
information. If you or your group don't have money and 

do need technique, this may be your best source. Many of 
the government publications are outstanding. By and by 
we hope to have reviews of many specific good ones in the 
CATALOG. One drawback: the government grinds fine but 
very very slow — shipments take forever. 


Inventions Wanted by the Armed Forces and Other Government 
Agencies: Cumulative Vol. 2 [List]. Natl Inventors Council, 1964. 
62 p. Free from the Council. 

This hopeful inventory contains enough ideas to keep all of us 
hoping for some time. 


Understanding the Atom Series. Atomic Energy Comm., 1963-67. 


Free from the Commission. 


This extraordinarily handsome and informative group is published by 
the Division of Technical Information of the AEC. With some 
exceptions (recognizable by their titles), all of the group are intended 
to be as nontechnical as anything in this field can be. The entire series 
deals with every aspect of the subject, except the military; moreover, 
the series is aimed at several levels of understanding and background. 
Each of the titles is excellently illustrated. All carry reading lists. 
Since a great many of the titles have been issued very recently and 
were received too late by the compiler to permit individual annotation, 
only this broad introductory note is possible. The titles are 
recommended for school use and for the general public. The generous 
policy of the AEC, in making these very fine booklets freely available, 
deserves mention. Requests should be addressed to: 

United States Atomic Energy Commission 

P.O. Box 62 

Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 
Complete sets of the group are available free to schools and to public 
libraries, and to teachers who can make them available for reference 
or for use by groups. 


Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America. E.T. Adney and H.1. 
Chapelle, Natl, Museum, Bull. 230 (1964). 242 p. il. $3.25 

S} 3.3:230 
Of great historical interest. Also tells you (with plans) how to make 
these canoes. 





Manual of Septic Tank Practice. Public Health Serv. 1960. 91 p. il. 
40¢ FS 2.6:Se 6/2 
A fine detailed guide to proper maintenance and repair. 


Controlling Mosquitoes in Your Home and on Your Premises. J.A. 
Fluno. Agr. Dep., Home and Garden Bull. 84 (1962). 12p. il. 10¢ 
A 1.77:84 












A Popular Guide to Government Publications 
W. Philip Leidy 
1968; 363 pp. 3000 items 


$1 2.00 postpaid from), 
a ‘i> University Press 

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Nery partment 


“on-Hudson, N.Y. 10533 


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Home Poultry Flock. Agr. Dept., Leaflet 497 (1965). 8 p. il. 5¢ 
A 1.35:497 
A simple guide for the small scale producer. 


Wood Handbook; Basic Information on Wood as a Material of 
Construction, with Data for its Use in Design and Specification. 
Agr. Dept., Agr. Handbook 72 (1955). 528 pp. il. $2.25 

A 1.76:72 


A good deal of the information here will be of interest to anyone 
working with common woods for building or carpentry. 


Recipes [Navy-Marine Corps Recipe Serv.]. Navy Dept., Supplies 
and Accounts Bur., 1963. 738 cards, 5" x 8", $8.25 per set. 

D 212.2R 24/963 
Meant, of course, for very large servings indeed. 


Anthropology as a Career. W.C. Sturtevant. Smithsonian Inst., 1963. 
20 p. 20¢. Purchase from the Institution. 


Eamily Guide: Emergency Health Care. Civil Defense Off., 1963. 

60 p. il. Free from the Office. 

The advice here is not intended to substitute for professional medical 
care; covering a wide range of illnesses and ailments, it tells you what 
to do in emergencies — everything from a toothache to childbirth, 


Farming Terraced Land. P. Jacobson and W. Weiss. Agr. Dept., 
Leaflet 335 (1961) [1963]. 14 p. il. 15¢ A 1.35:335 
Excellently illustrated guide to techniques involved. 


The Armchair Shopper’s Guide 


This cheerful book is an uncommonly practical compendium 
of access. Listed here are ail of the major and many of the 
minor mail order shippers in the world. To a large extent 

the shippers carry items not available locally. Each source 
is very well described and compared with its competitors. 
The Armchair Shopper's Guide is more general than us, and 
geared to wealthier readers, but if you use the WHOLE 
EARTH CATALOG very much, you can almost certainly 

use the Shopper's Guide. 





The Armchair Shopper’s Guide 
Delphine C. Lyons 
1968; 218 pp. 
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Culpeper House. Ltd., 21 Bruton St., Berkeley Square, London W.1, 

| England (catalog free): This distinguished firm is owned by the 
British Society of Herbalists, so its standards of purity and quality 
are high. 


| Here you will find one of the largest available collections of herbs 

and herbal preparations for all purposes, including many types and 
blends not easily available here, at prices generally well below 

| American levels. Medicinal preparations include all kinds of herb 
teas and blends at about 40¢ to 50¢ per 2-ounce pack; tonics and 

| remedies, pills and ointments (slippery elim and marshmallow cream 
is around 60¢; corn and wart paint costs 60c). Among culinary 
products are flavorings, herbs and spices (including combinations 

| and blends of their own), most costing about 50¢ per ounce, with 
a few exceptions such as cardamons and mace blades, which hit a 
top of around $1.20 per ounce), Oils, vinegars, and such esoteric 

| items as carrageen moss and tree bark are also available. 


In addition, there's a line of herbal and floral perfumes and 
toiletries, with such delightful names as Blue Champak, Sussex 

Violets, Syringa, or Sweet Beans (which suggest, they say, “a bean- 
field after a shower of rain”) — plus potpourris and pomanders and, 
if you're brave, herb cigarrettes at around 40¢ for a packet of 
twenty. 


Stechert Hafner, Inc., 31 East 19th Street., New York, N.Y. 10003 

| (catalog free): Featured here are scientific, mathematical, and 
medical books, many of which are also published under the aegis 
of this distinguished house. 


| Then a really splendid source, The Guitar Maker, 8665 West 13th 
Ave., Denver, Colo. 80215 (brochure free) has do-it-yourself guitar, 

| sitar, dulcimer, Irish harp, and balalaika kits, beginning as low as 
$8 for the dulcimer, and $9 for the balalaika. For faint hearts, 
they'll sell the finished instrument at from around two and a half 

| to three times the price of the kit. 


W. Atlee Burpee Co., 18th & Hunting Park Ave., Philadelphia, Pa 
19132 (catalog freet): Probably the best known of all American 

seed houses, Burpee’s was founded in 1876, at a time when America 
imported almost all its seeds from Europe. Mr. Burpee — and, later, his 
famous cousin Luther Burbank — started a tradition of creating new 
flowers and vegetables through scientific methods, which the firm 
continues today under his son’s direction. Every year several new 
varieties of plants are offered. 


The familiar catalog with its handsome full-page color illustrations 

offers a comprehensive listing of seeds — about one-third are vegetables 
and the rest are flowers — plus garden supplies. A special feature is a 
page listing types of flowers most appropriate for various purposes, 

| including “easy-to-grow” types for the amateur or unlucky gardener. 


Every gardener, from the strictly amateur to the case-hardened 

| professional, knows about Hyponex all-purpose plant food. However, 
some people don’t know that the same firm, Hydroponic Chemical 
Co,, Gopley, Ohio 44321 (brochure free) manufactures nine other 

| plant food formulas, as well as special foods for particular plants. 
Don’t let the firm’s name fool you. Although their pliant foods are, 
of course, useful in soilless gardening, they're meant for all kinds of 
plant culture, indoors and out. In addition. Hydroponic offers a 

| whole line of garden and houseplant supplies, many of which are 
difficult to find locally. It's the only place | know of where you can 

| get sand in small quantities — quarts are less than a dollar postpaid. 


| + Merchandise shipped postage free. 


How to Get 20% to 90% Off on Everything You Buy 


Well, yeah. Except the book smelis of self-improvement. 
Somehow if you beat your neighbor for bargains it makes 
you a better person and this a better world. Sure. 


There’s nothing unique in this book, but all the corner- 
cutting techniques are here. The main advice is: trade your 
services or talents or whatever for what would otherwise 
cost you money. Most of the information won't be new to 
you, but the ideas that are will more than save you the price 
of the book — if you take the trouble, which all bargain-finding 
comes down to. 





Here are five don’ts to keep in mind when bargaining: 


1. Don't try to bargain at a chain store. 
The store has its prices set at the central office. 


2. Don't try to bargain with a clerk in a privately owned store. 
Only the owner or a strong head of a department is a 
decision maker. 

3. Don't try to cut the price of merchandise that has a set price 
in all stores. These “fair trade” items have prices set at the 
manufacturer's home office. Store owners who fiddle with 
these prices can lose their franchise. 

4. Don't pretend to be an expert when buying from someone 

| who knows more about the merchandise than you do. 


5. Don’t knock the merchandise! 


—— 


How to Get 20% to 90% Off on Everything You Buy 


Jean and Cle Kinney 
1 1966; 255 pp. 





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Innovator 


The people who produce and read Innovator are very dubious 
about Society's chances just now. They expect an Atias 
Shrugged sort of collapse, and they are preparing for it by 
defining and becoming proficient at a ‘libertarian’ way of 

life: philosophic and bodily survival amid order or chaos. 
Recenily, Innovator has shifted emphasis toward bodily sur- 
vival; carrying information on self-protection, nomadic tech 
niques, community techniques, secure communications, and 
so forth. 





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Innovator is published quarterly. Free Trade, a supplement 
devoted to ads and correspondence, comes out monthly. 
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The Retreater’s Bibliography 


THE ASTHEATERS emma soemasny 





Listed here are titles, costs, sources, and some capsule reviews 
of books relevant to living outside a system. Some of the cate- 
gories overlap with WHOLE EARTH CATALOG listings, and 
we've found that sometimes we have more complete inform- 
ation, sometimes the Stephens do. 


Retreater’s categories include; Camping and Survival, Finding 
a Proper Location, Food Supply and Domestic Animals, 
Building Your Own Home, Medicine, Education and Retreat 
Library, Recreation, Protection and Hunting, Land Mobility, 
Water Mobility, Waste Disposal, and General. 


The Retreater’s Bibliography 
Don and Barbie Stephens 
1968; 18 pp 


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The Book of Survival 







The Book of Survival is hilarious to read aloud, which is fine, 
because the admonitions sink in via the laugh, and, next 
time you're running from an enraged bull, you remember 
about flinging down your jacket. 


(Anthony Greenbank 





The Book of Survival 


+ Anthony Greenbank 
1967; 223pp 


$5.98 postpaid from: 


Harp ur and Row 
49 East O3rd Street 


CREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE 
(STEPPING FROM FLYING SAUCER) 


Avoid rapid forceful movement. N k, NY 10016 
Use no shrill sounds. Gg 
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Breathe quietly. 
Avoid giving a direct menacing gaze. 





DOGS 

Ordinary village dog in other countries is often dangerous. 
Semi-starved and savage, its bite can be fatal (if dog has rabies). 
Signs- glazed eyes/foaming mouth/staggering. 


Stone them to keep at bay if they attack you. 
With other big dogs try the following deterrents, in this order: 
(a) Hit on nose HARD and FAST. 


{b) Brace forearm in front of you, offering it to dog, When 
seized jam it to back of jaws and instantly bring over your 
other arm (palm flexed andfacing floor) so bony edge of 
forearm forces into back of dog’s neck as you force the head 
backwards and over the arm with a quick jerk. Rolling action. 





When lying on the ground and being kicked try to keep 
rolling, shielding parts being kicked with arms. BUT Always 
protect head as priority. Clasp base of skull with both hands, 
bring wrists across ears and side of head and press elbows 
together, Bring knees up, crossing ankles to save genitals. 


In all attacks it pays to shout/gasp/yell more than you need: 
Feign pain. Especially when on receiving end (lying on ground 
and being kicked). Attacker may be satisfied sooner when 
you appear in agony. 





PRECOLLISION ACTION WHEN NOT STRAPPED IN 


1. DO OPPOSITE OF NATURAL INSTINCT TO PUSH AWAY FROM 
CRASH 


2. FLING YOURSELF TOWARD POINT OF IMPACT... 
3. WRAPPING ARMS ROUND HEAD.. 
4. TWISTING SIDEWAYS AND LYING WITH FLANK ACROSS FRONT 





FIGHTING DRUNK 
Humor. 


If involved in brawl, drunks can offer astoundingly strong grip. Hit 
Rope climbing stomach and this may make him sick. 


using friction knots 





EMERGENCY CHILDBIRTH 


Happens anytime. Don’t panic. Not unique situation. Let nature 
handle it with you helping it along. 


Above all... 
41, DON’T PULL BABY OR ITS CORD OR AFTERBIRTH ATTACHED 
TO OTHER END OF CORD 


2, TIE CORD AS SOON AS BABY IS DELIVERED. 


3. CUT CORD ONLY IF NO HELP LIKELY, IF HELP ON WAY, TIE 
CORD BUT LEAVE AFTERBIRTH ATTACHED. 


4, KEEP BABY WARM. PLACE BETWEEN MOTHER'S LEGS.... 





Survival still 











The Survival Book 





; ; ' oy One of the authors once gave a 50-cent Swiss jackknife to a Tuareg Give careful thought to the selection of equipment you will carry on 
The Survival Book is the best we ve 5207? of ihe mruliteary noble in the Sahara. Later he received courtesies out of all proportion the walkout. A 50-pound pack is a heavy load; 20 to 30 pounds is 
survival manuals. It was prepared in the late ‘50s by Allen, to the demands of hospitality. Finally the noble explained. “When much more reasonable. The four most important equipment items 
Nesbitt and Pond for the Air Force (downed pilots you first came here you gave me a knife that closes. All my life | have for jungle travel and living off the land are the machete, the compass, 
particularly). Mr. Allen tells us that if we customers wanted a knife that closes. You are my friend. Anything | have is the first-aid kit, and the parachute. 
hassle the publishers, Van Nostrand, they'll come out YOURS: 


The highways of the jungle are the trails and the streams; use them if 
you have to do any extended travelling. The beds of small streams 
are usually used as trails by the natives, because it is easier to wade 


with a paperback edition. 

















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Max. daily Available water per man, US, quarts 
Don't reprimand an offender in front of other people. an shade —EE 
Don't draw sand pictures or maps with your foot — stoop down and op 0 1 2 
draw with your right hand temperature, 
Don’t swear at a native oc  aecaceas =a i 
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on your heels. w~ 110 3 3 45 
, Don't ask about a man's wife. Z. t 100 5 5.5 6 
The fruit of all cactus plants is good to eat. Don't throw a coin at a man's feet. That is insulting. 7 . 
Some cactus fruit is red, some yellow when Don’t try to gamble. It is forbidden. - } ot) 7 8 9 
ripe, but all are soft, Any of the flat leaf = 80 9 10 Vi 
cactus plants like the prickly pear can be And here are a couple of Do’s worth remembering - 7 10 Bl 12 
boiled and eaten as greens (like spinach) re) 60 10 1 12 
if you peel or cut off the spines first. Do have patience when dealing with desert people. x. 50 } 10 11 12 
Do act friendly. 
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Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes 


Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes is a rare book: it 
shows in exhaustive well-illustrated detail how one tribe 
managed its daily survival. | wish someone would do a 
similar book on Eskimos. 












Survival Arts of the Primitive Pauites 


Margaret M Wheat 


1967; 177pp 

$1 0.00 postpaid 

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When the boat was completed, Jimmy stepped in the center to form ¢ yf it ate i rimitive 


a deeper hollow. The finished boat was eight-and-a-half feet long but 4 2 Se. 
so light that it could easily be lifted with one hand. Pa jutes B®, 


Shoveling hot coals from the breakfast fire onto 
the small, brown pinenuts in the winnowing tray, 
she began immediately to bounce and turn them, 
keeping them in constant motion to protect the 
basket from becoming scorched 


When the nuts hissed and popped somewhat like 
popcorn, she knew they were cooked. This first 
roasting leaves the meat soft and translucent. 


To play the game, two people on one side each concealed a 
pair of sticks or “bones” within their closed fists. One bone 

of each pair was plain, the other ornamental. The guesser on 
the opposing team had to choose in which hands the unornament 
ad sticks were hidden. If the guess were correct, his side 

was awarded a tally stick. If not, his side lost a stick. The side 
winning all ten tally sticks claimed all the bets. The singers 
opposing the guesser shouted, waved, and beat the logs to 
confuse him, but he sat quietly, apparently oblivious to the 
distractions, concentrating on his choice. !t is remarkable how 
often a good guesser won. Winners were never congratulated, 
nor were losers ever consoled. The game's still played in the 
Great Basin with stakes often running into hundreds of dollars 





Camping and Woodcraft Light Weight Camping Equipment and How to Make 


When friend Roland goes camping he takes his Bible and his 


It's all here: design, patterns, assembly techniques, light 
Kephart. | generally leave home the Bible. 


weight materials, and sources of the materials. Because of 
good information on what's needed for various environments, 
it’s a useful book even if you aren’t making your own stuff. 


An indispensible book if you are. 
[Suggested by Roland Jacopetti] 


How could anything written in 1916 still be so useful? One, 
it is a masterwork. Two, in Kephart’s day when you went 
camping you really disappeared, so there’s a valid nostalgia 
factor. But the main thing is, the book survives on its wealth 
of specific practical lore. Game: find the information that 

is outdated, sort it from the information that is correct and 
available nowhere else. 







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Light Weight Camping Equipment 
Gerry Cunningham 

Margaret Hansson 


1959; 130 pp. aaa 
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Horace Kephart 8e Avenue 
1917, 1921, 1967; 479 pp. N.. © N.Y. 10022 
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The charm of nomadic life is its freedom from care, its unrestrained 
liberty of action, and the proud self-reliance of one who is absolutely Lad gO 
his own master, free to follow his bent in his own way, and who cheer- 
fully, in turn, suffers the penalties that Nature visits upon him for 

every slip of mind or bungling of his hand. Carrying with him, as he 
does, in a few small bundles, all that he needs to provide food and 
shelter in any land, habited or uninhabited, the camper is lord of him- 
self and of his surroundings. 





Men working hard in the open, and exposed to the vicissitudes of 


wilderness life, need a diet rich in protein, fats (especially in cold ~ 
weather), and sweets. This may not agree with theories of dieticians, <<* Here is a list of sources of supply for the materials 
but it is the experience of millions of campaigners who know what ! Following the addresses, the suppliers will be listed separately 
their work demands. A low-protein diet may be good for men lead- Fig 6&—A Masked Camp under various materials haedings with the specific items they can 
ing soft lives, and for an occasional freak outdoorsman, but try it supply. 
on an army in the field, or on a crew of lumberjacks, and you will In Alaska, all animals leave for the snow-line as soon as the mosquito 
face stark mutiny. pest appears, but the enemy follows them even to the mountain tops GERRY PO Box 5544, Denver Colorado 80217 

above timber-line. Deer and moose are killed by mosquitoes, which HOLUBAR, 1215 Grandview, Boulder, Colorado-catalog available 
Muddy Water. — | used to clarify Mississippi water by stirring corn- settle upon them in such amazing swarms that the unfortunate beasts RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT INC.,523 Pike St., Seattle 1, Wash. 
meal in it and letting it settle, or by stirring a lump of alum in it succumb from literally having the blood sucked out of their bodies. catalog available 
until the mud began to precipitate, and then decanting the clear Bears are driven frantic, are totally blinded, mire in the mud, and THOMAS BLACK & SONS, Scottish Industrial Estate, Port Glasgow, 
water. Lacking these, one can take a good handfull of grass, tie it starve to death. Animals that survive have their flesh discolored all Renfrewshire, Scotland — catalog available. 
roughly in the form of a cone six or eight inches high, invert it, pour through, and even their marrow is reduced to the consistency of TRAILWISE (The Ski Hut), 1615 University Ave., Berkeley 3, 
water slowly into the grass, and a runnel of comparatively clear blood and water. The men who penetrate such regions are not the California — catalog available. 
water will trickle down through the small end. kind that would allow toil or privation to break their spirit, but they SEARS ROEBUCK - local store or mail order catalog. 

become so unstrung from days and nights of continuous torment MONTGOMERY WARD - local store or mail order catalog 
Trees and Lightning. —! have never seen nor heard of, a beech tree inflicted by enemies insignificant in size but infinite in number, that Tent and awning suppliers, yard goods shops, leather wholesalers, 
that had been struck by lightning, although beeches are plentiful on they become savage, desperate, and sometimes even weep in sheer luggage shops, marine outfitters, sailmakers, shoe manufacturers 
many battle-scarred mountains where stricken trees of other species helpless anger. and repair shops, harness and saddle shops, mattress and bedding 
can be noted by the score. ‘ ‘ ‘ manufacturers, army surplus stores, hardware stores, dry goods 

Bixnixc Woop,—Small pieces of green wood can departments, handicraft shops, notions departments. 

One glance at a comper's fire tells what kind of a woodsman he is. be heat tw a required torm by merely soaking the 


It is quite impossible to prepare a good meal over a heap of smoking 
chunks, a fierce blaze, or a great bed of coals that will warp iron and 
melt evervthina else. 





Backpacking 
Pig. 54.--Spnish Windlass (for bending wood) A well-regarded inexpensive book on backpacking, kept 
A P wees kept fairly up to date. 
pieces for two or three days in water, but if it is [Suggested by Roland Jacopettt] 


desired that they should retain their new shape, they 
should be steamed. 


Rabbits are unfit to eat in late summer, as their backs are then infested 
with warbles, which are the larvae of the rabbit bot-fly. 


Green Corn — If you happen to camp near a farm in the “Roasting- 

ear” season, you are in great luck. The quickest way to roast an ear 

of corn is to cut off the butt of the ear closely, so that the pith of 

the cob is exposed, ream it out a little, impale the cob lengthwise on the 
end of a long hardwood stick, and turn over the coals. 










Fists. 
Fig. 113 — Latrine 


Skilligalee — The best thing in a fixed camp is the stock-pot. A large 
covered pot or enameled pail is reserved for this and nothing else. 
Into it go all the fag-ends of game — heads, tails, wings, feet, giblets, 
large bones — also the left-overs of fish, flesh and fowl, of any and all 
sots of vegtables, rice, or other cereals, macaroni, stale bread, every 
thing edible except fat. This pot is always kept hot. Its flavors are 
forever changing, but ever welcome. It is always ready, day or night, 
for the hungry varlet who missed connections or who wants a bit 
between meals. No cook who values his peace of mind will fail to 
have a skilly simmering at all hours. 





A woodsmen, on the contrary, walks with a rolling motion, his hips 


swaying an inch or more to the stepping side, and his pace is corres- Becgeng 
pondingly long. This hop action may be noticed to an exaggerated 4964: 420 
degree in the stride of a professional pedestrian; but the latter walks : BES 
Fig: 77—Cabin do ns with a heal-and-toe step, whereas an Indian’s or sailor's step is more fe 
= hin sh fi : nea Noy oden nearly flat-footed. In the latter case the center of gravity is covered $2 15 postp 
. by the whole foot. The poise is as secure as that of a rope-walker. fan 
It is not nearly so much the “make” of rifle as the load it takes that The ¥" s sgord 
determined the gun’s shooting qualities. So, choose first a cartridge, 
then a gun to handle it. ‘ any 
le 10, 
A more highly prized kinnikinick is made from the leaves of the bear- » 2 ‘Mexico 


berry or uva-ursi (Aretostaphylos-uva-ursi), called sacaoommis by the 
Canadian traders, who sell it to the northern Indians for more than 
the price of the best tobacco. 


Fig. 49.—Splitting with a Froe 








L.L. Bean 


The Bean catalog is the model for the 
WHOLE EARTH CATALOG. Mr. Bean 
had a directness and integrity that shows 
through his catalog, his products, his 
service. The catalog has excellent items, 
especially outdoor clothing. An uncom- 
monly pleasant company to do business 
with. 

Catalog: Free 


Bean’s Folding Sled 


Strong enough to hold 1,000 pounds, yet weighs only 10 
pounds. Originally designed to haul game into camp but is 
very useful for ice fishing. skating parties and for carrying food 
and equipment to camp. In case of accident may be used for 
hauling injured. 

Length 48", width 18%", height 642". Dimensions when 
folded — length 654%" x 874" x 5”, 

May be carricd on back seat of automobile. 

When uot in use may be folded and hung on wall taking 


Price. $16.00 postpaid. 


Bean’s Maine Hunting Shoe 


Mr. Bean first developed this boot in 1912. He was tired of 
coming home with wet and sore feet from wearing the heavy 
leather woodsman boots then in commor. use. Rubber boots 
were clammy feeling and too clumsy for all day walking. He 
decided te combine hghtweight leather tops with all rubber 
bottoms, incorporating the bes: teatures of both types of foot- 
wear and doing away with the disadvantages He calied his 


front... Bean, Inc. new boot the Maine Hunting Snoe. 


Feat, 
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very little space, 






















The practical) advantages of this desgn were readily apparen: 
to hunters and woodsmen bor bare vround walking 
it was light in weight suup fituung. nad a cushiones 


innersole and e non-slip chain tread ovtersole Fe 
wel going ane walking on snow. the waterproc 
bottom: were idea! Mr. Bean invented the spl: : 


backstay to eliminate chafing and by keeping al 
part: as hght anc fiexible as poss: 
ble he had a boot that could be used 
all day m perfect comtort The 
Maine Hunting Shoe was an imme 
diate success, 









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all =. 


6 in. 8 in. 10 in. 12 in. 14 im. 16 im. 
Elk-tanned; $16.00 $17.00 $19.00 $20.00 i * . 
Oil) grain: $16.85 $17.85 $19.85 $20.85 $23.85 $26.85 Postpaid 


*|4 in. and 16 in. heights come with brown oil grain tops only. For lacing hooks add 50c. 
Re 





Organized as a cooperative in 1938, Recreational Equipment, 
Inc. has grown to a membership of 79,000, with 2000 items 
listed in their catalog. These items are available at prices well 
below any other suppliers (with the exception of a few items, 
we're told). They are particularly strong on mountaineering 
equipment. Lifetime membership costs $1.00. 


CO-OP CRUISER PACKS BULK PACKED FREEZE-DRIED FOOD 


The Cruiser contoured aluminum frame 
is the latest improvement in pack frames 
incorporating the strength and lightness of 
aluminum plus a contoured shape that 
makes backpacking a pleasure. We have 


These larger quantitics are suitable for expeditions 
re-sealed after only partial use to prevent spoiling 


3 Querts in Polybogs. Packed in cardboard cartons 


They must be 









[Suggested by Roland Jacopetti} Seah pag, Sor ee yal Corn, whole kernel. 16 oz K404413 2.95 
9 mi waterproof nylon that is the hee viest Peas, garden, 16 oz K404A14 3.30 
fre. weight pack cloth available, and is exclu- Strawberries, 8 o2. K404A15 5.50 
Re nal Equipment, Inc. sive with us. Peaches, 8 oz. K404A16 4.50 
1£ anth Avenue i ; 
; Beef Patties, $10 tin, 1% Ibs. K404433 9.73 
Se fashington 98122 Made fi wouler 
aluminum with heavy web back bands, #2, SEALED TINS 
padded shoulder straps and waist strap. Alaska King Crab, net weight 44% of. cooked K4046A18 4.25 


Exclusive with us is the extra top bar for 
More rigidity. 


Senior size frame, 15° wide. 31" long. for 
most adults, 244 Ibs. 


C5466 


[A] Sierra Cup. Stainless steel, all-time fa- 
vorite, wire handle. nesting, 3 oz 


H449C37 1.00 


[8] Nesting Aluminum Cup. With folding 
Senter Co-op Cruiser Bag. The bag is 6” wire handle, Swas mute 
xlS*x2°" deep with a center pocket 
14"x 10x 8B" deep, two side pockets 
2°x5°x6" deep and two other pockets on 
the side which are 2°x5"x11" deep. All 
Cruiser bags attach to the frame by two 
cups suspended on the top rung and by 
two straps at the bottom, and are doubly 
reinforced at all stress points. 


C678A10 Red or Sage nylon, 144 Ibs. 12.95 
C678A11 Red or O.D. cotton, 2 Ibs. 9.95 


3” diameter 


thy" diameter #206C23 


[C}) Bob Lane Cup. Unique stainless cup, 
folds completely flit, does not leak, sturdy, 
weight only ‘a oz 


HS36C7 1.25 





DYNAMIC ROPE 

In recemt yeurs, the Europeans have de 
veloped a new climbing rope using a solid 
core of porallel strands of nylon surrounded 


(C]) Vekre Tope Closure. The pull-apart 
closure that tukes the place of « Zipper 
Although sold separately. both halves are 
needed fur a closure Grey color 


N315814 1" hook, per foot 35 by « woven sheath. This hus been found to 
N315815 I" pile, per foot 35 he very strong and cusy to handle. having 
» less tendency to kink in use. Called “Dynam- 
N31581 z ; é a , 
315816 hook per foot 70 ic.” ot has an chisticny of about BO ut 
315817 2” pile. per foot 70 


rupture, thus giving greater protection to 
the climber during u fall. The tensile strength 
is. however. somewhat less) Thess new rope 
has been eiven the stump of approval by 






Mountaineering Medicine, a concise. handy ; 
guide to treatment of all sorts of ilks und * 


injuries in the mountains. By Dr. Fred the U_LA.A. (Union International des As- 
Darville sociutions d Alpinisme). who. through their 
asega7s 1.00 testing, have set standerds for muximum 


safety to climbers. Note: 9mm rope is rec- 
ommended for double-line use 


Adjustable Tent Poles. Lightweight aluminum 
2-piece telescoping poles. Folding down to 


i [8] Mammut Dynamic Rope. Swiss mince, red 
average 4'. Ideal for tarps, tent awnings, etc. .. 


9mmxt 20. $ Ibs 8218A22 20.95 





ses9c22 6 length, 18 of. 1.88 Pear! $0". 6 Ibs 8218A21 24.95 
6489C23 7° length, 20 oz 2.10 
8459C24 & length, 22 oz. 2.45 





[C] Collcpsibie P-88 Tent Pole. A four-sec- 
tion pole used with McKinley or Camper 
tents. Extends to 88" and collapses to 25°x 
1%" diameter. Weight 23% oz. 


ces7ce 4.95 








Mount Kennedy, 14,000’. In 1965, our men 
and equipment were on the first ascemt of 
the peak named for the late President, and 
on the subsequent mapping research done 
in the arca 


L.L. Bean cont. 


Heavy Duty Belt Bean’s Insulated Boot Pant 


For hunters, fishermen and Constructed same as Mackinaw of 21 oz. 
ides who require a solid wool lined with quilted, foam rubber insula- 
leaker belt for hard service. tion. Extra warm, not bulky and hard wear- 
A fancy dress belt looks out ing. Four deep, strong pockets 
of place on heavy hunting with flaps on rear ones. Watch pocket. 
pants. riveted suspender buttons and 
Made of high grade genuine cowhide with brass plated buckle knit cuffs. Weight about 2%4 Ibs. Dry 


Two colors: Light Tan. Black. Sizes 24 to 48, cleanable. 


Color: Bright Red and Black Plaid. 
Width 144”. Wall 


Men's sizes 30 to 50. Regular inseam. 
(For Men and Women) 


Price, $23.50 postpaid. 
A new design by Clarks of England for complete walking 
comfort. Fit perfectly on the first wearing. 
Special “Nature Form” lasts fit the natural contours of the a q 
feet. Do not restrict them in any way yet provide firm sup- ' 


Price, $1.80 postpaid. 





ort. 
Glove leather uppers of full grained European calfskin 
suede. Extra thick, soft and supple. Wedge type soles of 
Plantation crepe rubber have a resilience not found in synthe- ! 
tic crepes. | 
Moccasin construction with hand sewed toe piece. Molded, 
orthopedic-type arch support enclosed in sponge rubber and 
vented leather insole. Firm heel counters, bellows tongue 
elasticized laces for snug, non-binding fit. 


Color, Sand Suede. 


Men’s Ankle Height (abovc): 
Sizes 7 to 13. Whole and half sizes, (No size 12%.) 
Medium width. 


Price, Men’s Ankle Height Wallabees, $21.95 a pair postpaid. 


Ladies’ Low Cut (at right) : 
Sizes 5 to 10. Whole and half sizes. 
Medium width. 


Price, Ladies’ Low Cut Wallabees, $19.95 a pair postpaid. 


Bean’s Improved 
Sandwich Spreader 


Professional quality of high 
grade staimless stee]) with mirror 
finish. Beautifully grained rose- 
wood handle. Brass rivets 
Blade is stiff enough te dig out thick 
spreads or for turning. exible 
cnough for easy spreading and 
frosting. Sharp serrated edge cute 
sandwiches, cheese, vegetables, etc. 
Overall length 742". Blade 3%”. 


Price, $1.25 postpaid 


Durability. Crumpled-up newspaper will insulate. It will compress easily for packing. But once 
compressed, ut will never regain its original thickness. Fine goose down, however, can be com- 
pressed lightly for months on end, yet it will always pull up to its original thickness within half an hour. 
Other matenals tend to wear oul, and lose thickness after each cycle of compresswn ard rekase 
Remember that thckness ws warmth So fluff up your bag as soon as the tent ts up. Then fluff it up 
again betore you crawl in For more information on this subject, send for my free booklet, “How to 
Keep Warm 









Gerry Outdoor Equipment 





The solidest reputation for innovative design in camping equip- 
ment belongs to Gerry Cunningham. (Now there’s a statement 
that can be challenged. Do it.) Gerry packs, tents, parkas, 
sleeping bags, kiddie carriers, make up a well crafted well dis- 
tributed line. 


Gerry catalog Free from: 4 
Colorado Outdoor Spc poration 
P.C 344 
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Kaibab boots 


Dead air. All modern insulating matenals depend on dead au 
to keep you warm. Any material thal intercepts ait at Ya" intervals 


or closer will insulate sulficeently. There is no miracle ensulateon, If Kaibab boots are the real thing: traditional Indian desert 


Foam pads 
Lighter than an air mattress «© Warm- 
er than an air mattress « Can't 
leak and let you down ¢ Compact — 
carries in same stuff sack as your 
sleeping bag »* Pillow pocket at head 
end ¢ Removable waterproof cover 
facilitates airing and drying. 


@ Shortie 20-Pound Camp 


Number: 6608 896 Weight. | Ib 2 ors 
Size: 36° long x 20° wide x 'h2° cwap 
Pipoing Wergnt: 2 tos 








it deadens the air, One material is as good as another 

Thickness. The amount of insuiation depends on thickness. To 
gél & good night's sloep at OF, you need about 2'9 inches of dead 
air all around your body. Tnickneéss can vary, but for every thin spot 
you need a compensating thick spot Our Gerry sleeper thicknesses 
are measured under the same pressure of 034 oz ‘sq. inch as used 
in the Fed Std 148ja) Filling Power Test tor Down (see Fig. 1) 
They are not fluffed up and tnen scanned across Ihe top of the tubes 

Mos! manulacturers Drag abou! how much down they put into 
a bag. We brag about how little we use Comfort ranges for eacn 
sleeper are for temperatures at which even a person who sleeps 
cold wili be warm 


@ tightest of all frame carriers ¢ Atu- 
minum tubing e Tough canvas duck seal 
supports baby snugly hign « Can be used 
as car seat with adapter sirap 


Numoer PRGZ 
Weeght ' pb lors Smiepieg Went 2 Bs. 10 of 


$11.00 


Gerry 
Kiddie 
seat 


his 
Vagabond pack/frame 
Wilderness sleeper 
Shortie foam pad 
Year-round tent/poles 
1% qt. pot, lid, 

cup, spoon 
3 ib. food 
Poncho 
TOTAL WEIGHT 


hers 
Vagabond pack/frame 
Wilderness sleeper 
Shortie foam pad 
1¥% Qt. pot, lid, 

cup, spoon 
Aid kit, cord, flashlight 
Poncho 
1 Ib. food 


TOTAL WEIGHT 


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moccasins. Made of deerskin and horsehide, they are light, 
attractive, and durable — just the right amount of improve- 
ment over bare feet. Unfortunately there are innumerable imi- 
tations of Kaibabs, all terrible. The giveaway is the seam 
between sole and top. if the sewing is visible on the outside 
the moccasins are frauds and will fall off your feet in a few 
weeks. Real Kaibabs will last six months of steady use, and 
when you finally come through the soles, you can send the 
tops to Tucson for new soles ($12.00) and get another six 
months. (One warning. Kaibabs on wet slick sidewalk are 
sudden death.) 


Kaibab boots 


$18.75 mens 
$1 7.75 ladies 


“uckskin 
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ANKT 











Hot Springs 


! 

3 y No. | Temper- Total 
It seems incredible that there would be such on Name or location | eure ot | Flow (liters dissolved} Principal chemical constituents 
a book. Here are map location of all the = Ben | Senne) eee 
known hot springs in the world, along with aan a ere ae Se 
information on temperature, rate of flow, 85 | El Suladilio de tos Colorados.| 34 | Moderately | 4,860 | Na, 80,, CL 
mineral content, and whether commercial ah | Reikaeuns a Cnet da’ Casas * mn ste, Hi CH 
or wild. You could travel the rest of your ball rg yy gs i Ly a rena 

i i i Patquia. 
days from Spring to spring, stopping at that -...-| Totoritas, in La Rioja _... a ee |. step NRCG igen ccnesnccemenseeiees 
Tatapani springs, on the west bank of the 67 | Pismauta, 8 km west of | 40; 45 | ama j 400; 356 | Ne, 804; free HiS_. 
se on : . ” achal. 
Sunkasi river (“3 springs forming small pool") 58 | Quebrada de Husco (Hedi- | 21-25 | 100 | 2,300. | Na, $O4; much free Ha8....--- 
50 miles northwest of Mt. Everest, or the onda). | 2,868 
Hamman Ouled Sidi Abdeli ancient Roman RS oo ee } 27.4 Moder- | Na, 8Q,, Cl; free Ha8.-.--. 
baths, still flowing at 500 liters/minute, 81 F, | — 
1 


50 miles southwest of Oran, Algeria. 


Published by the U.S. Geological Survey for 
a song, this directory fails to mention the 
plastic ice-water afterlife that awaits those 
who mess up wild hot springs. 


Thermal Springs of the United States and 


Other Countries of the World-A Summary * 


Gerald Waring 

1965; 383 pp. from 
S'sc4 pendent of Documents 

$2.75 postpaid U ernment Printing Office 


an, D.C. 20402 


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Thermal Springs of the } 
United States and Other 

Countries of the World— 

A Summary 





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Most periodicals that have anything to do 

with exploring are about it, for people who 
don't do it: useless. This magazine is for ex- 
plorers, by explorers. The span of subject 
matter includes backpacking, diving, sailing, 
flying, spelunking, prospecting, archeology, 
photography, treasure hunting, mountaineer- 
ing, and conservation. The magazine is new 
and growing. Somewhat jolly in tone, it is full 
of specific gossip on tools, access, and current 


explorations. 
{Suggested by Mack Taylor] 


The Explorers Trademart Log from 
=xrlerars Trademart, Ltd. 
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10 2 RhOMETERS 


The Viet Nam war has opened 
sea-guing jobs for Americanc with 
or without experience. All you need 
is gow! health, American citizen- 
shap, and a yen for far away places, 
far East in this instance, 

The ‘‘angle’’. aid it is an angle, 
derives fron, the emergency crewing 
Situation experienced by the Military 
Sea Transportation Service. 
M S.T.S. ts the ocean transportation 
organization for the Department of 
Defense, Approximately two thirds 
of the employees are military per- 
sonnel. All ship's personnel are 
civilian merchant seamen of the 
Jon-union variety. Herein lies part 
of the ‘angle’. No upion means no 
senicrity preference, therefore no 
waiting. It also means no job security 
and no union contract, however that 
shouldn’t bother the casual seaman, 
because the pay and everything else 
is the same. 

The other part of the ‘‘angle'’ in- 
volves a thing called the Merchant 











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Thermal springs and wells in Argentina—Continued 


Associated rocks 


Precambrian(?) strata... - 


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— 


Remarks and additional revere nces 


1 main spring and several smalj 
flowing wells. 

Flowing well. Water used for 
drinking by cattle. 


Water used for bathing. 
2 main springs. Water containg 
much FerO;and AlOy. Fe! 912. 


Several springs. Deposits of sul 
fur. Water used for bathing. 
Ref, 905, 

Water used locally 
















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National Geographic 


Everyone knows about 
National Geographic. 

This is just a reminder, 
or a tribute. Long live. 


National Geographic 
$7.50 annual membership 


($9 outside U.S.) 
12 issues 


atary 
jeographic Society 
on, D.C. 20036 


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preregilsite to employment on any 
American ship, Only during emer- 
gency situations will the M.S.T.s, 
accept applications from persons 
without a document. Viet Nam is 
just such an emergency and v jile 
it lasts the MS.T.S. is hesping 
new seamen to obtain their cards, 

The Merchant Mariner’s Docu- 
ment is issued by the Coast Guard 
and stays with the holder beyond his 
employment with M.S.T.S. Once you 
have it you can use it from then oa, 
regardiess of who you work for, By 
the way, non-union jobs do exist, 
and the man, who is on the scene, 
and has his ‘ticket’’ (M.M, Docu- 
ment), can usually find work. You 
can join the union, of course, and 
go for the long term benefits, 
however unions are in business for 
the career seamen and are not in 
the business of accommodating 
sometime sailors, 

The no-budget voyagers of this 
country, have in the past. usually 
had to ‘go foreign’’ in order to 


7” yrer 






work their way to the far corners 
and exotic parts of the world, but 
now, for a litthe while, it can also 
be @ money making proposition. 
Moreover, the money comes in 
double helpings anywhere within one 
hundred miles of Viet Nam, The 
Shipping turn around in Viet Nam 
has in the past been notoriously slow 
due to poor port facilities, so this 
has meant hundreds of dollars extra 
to even the lowliest seamen. The 
extra money is in the nature of a 
hazardous duty compensation. i 
must be admitted though that the 
war has not been at all dangerous 
for the merchant seamen, 

Anyone with a few months to 
spare and the necessary nautical 
desire can address initial inquiries 
to: Commander, Military Sea 
Transportation Services, Naval 
Supply Center, Oakland, California 
94625, 

Bon voyage! 

























































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Sierra Club 


Sierra Club is currently going global in its considerations, 
publishing gorgeous books on non-U.S. wildernesses, promot- 
ing Earth national park, etc. 


We aren't listing their exhibit-format books simply because 
they aren’t strictly tools. They do publish useful specific 
locale books and if you're a member you get discounts on 
them. Other services to members include the monthly Sierra 
Club Bulletin and organized access to local and global wild 
places plus having a hand in obstructing dumb progress. 


$1 8.50 first year for husband and wife; $13.50 subsequently 
$8.50 first year for member 12 to 21; $3.50 subsequently 


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The Narrow Road to the Deep North Trout Fishing in America 
| Following the example of the ancient priest who is said to have trav- There was nothing | could do. | couldn't change aa flight of stairs into 
elled thousands of miles caring naught for his provisions and attain- a creek. The boy walked back to where he came from The same Sacred 
ing the state of sheer ecstasy under the pure beams of the moon, | thing once happened to me. | remember mistaking an old woman for vAaCre 
left my broken house on the River Sumida in the August of the first a trout stream in Vermont, and | had to beg her pardon. 
year of Jyokyo among the wails of the autumn wind. “Excuse me," | said. “! thought you were a trout stream.” 
“I'm not,” she said. To the Memory 
Determined to fall 
A weather-exposed skeleton of 
| | cannot help the sore wind 
| Blowing through my heart. 5 
| A little way from the shack was an outhouse with its door flung John Talbot 
| After ten autumns violently open. The inside of the outhouse was exposed like a 7 
| In Edo, my mind human face and the outhouse seemed to say, “The old guy who Who at the Age of Eighteen 
| Points back to it build me crapped in here 9,745 times and he’s dead now and | don’t 
' As my native place want anyone else to touch me. He was a good guy. He built me Had His Ass Shot Off 
' with loving care. Leave me alone, I'm a monument now to a good 
ass gone under. There is no mystery here, That's why the door's 
open. if you have to crap, go in the bushes like the deer.” In a Honky~ Tonk 
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches “Fuck you,” | said to the outhouse. “All | want is a ride down 
{ Basho the river.” 
| 1689; 1966; 167 pp November 1, 1936 
$1 BY bo) postpaid 2 ; 
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P Trout Fishing In America This May onnaise Jar 
F Richard Brautigan ’ 
P Books 1967; 112pp. With Wilted Flowers In It 
‘ 3 per Mill Road 
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$1.95 postpaia Was Left Here Six Months Ago 
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Toward a Theory of Instruction 


We were going to carry Jerome Bruner'’s Toward a Theory of 
Instruction ($3.95, Harvard University Press) here on account 
of his reputation, but on reading it | can't believe there isn’t 
something better. If there is something better that you know 
about, would you tell us. If there isn’t, would you mind re- 
viewing this gentlemanly book? Fill this space, win a prize 
($10) 


The Black Box 


Officially, the name of this learning device is “The Inquiry ¢ ° Science Research Agsociates, inc, 258 East Evie Street, Checago A 
Box.” It was developed for atin Research Associates INQUIRY box theory sheet A Subs. dary of 1M 
by Richard Suchman. It is a black wooden box (13 x 13 

x 2"). On one side there are 3 small rectangular holds, the 
opposite side has one hole, and the remaining sides have 2 
holes each. You don't know what's going on inside but some- 
thing is. For example, there may be a string coming out of 
one hole and a rod sticking out of another hole. If you pull NAME DATE PROBLEM NO. 
the string, the rod jumps. By pulling and pushing the things 

that stick out and by poking around inside with a stick you'r No rth 

supposed to figure out what arrangement of pulleys, pegs, 
springs and strings is inside. 


























There are an inexhaustible number of ways to arrange the 
insides with the components provided (see illustration). 
One kid can set up the “mystery arrangement” for anot- 
her, you can set it up for them, they can set it up for you. Ar 
this certainly isn’t limited to children. It’s not at all a dull 
game for adults. 


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The Inquiry Box was designed for the teaching of theory 
building and theory testing to children. The teachers hand- 
book gives you a very specific procedure to use the box by, 
but if you want to order (or make) just the box, you can 


learn a lot from using it any way you please. 
(Suggested by Dick Suchman, 
Reviewed by Jane Burton] 


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THIS Magazine is about Schools Mr. Spelina’s voice rises to a crescendo; he has not hie havd-sorr school Rugat Lenk? something Like tu; 
S J $: 


finished, but he has outdone himself, and his is out- 

















































































































doing the class. Delight has turned to confusion, and 
panic is spreading in the ranks. The French HARD 
This is a double-good magazine about schools, are holding fast, but the Spanish, with the exception spiked iron railings 
Made in Toronto it's global in context and it's of Mr. db donde gon under; vid ee 
: . : gone under. Mr. Cayo Junior is thinking about his 
superbly written and edited. Everything else girl-friend, and Mr. Rodrigues has decided to aban- 
we've seen on education looks stale and sad don English. 
next to it. ASPHALT PLAYGROUND imposing 
[Suggested by Jane Burton] The lesson to us is: do not learn crafts from famous in which play is entrance 
artists, but rather from competent technicians, Avoid forbidden windows with iron grills 
Until the cops attacked, the construction of the like the plague teachers who talk a lot about self-ful- 
barricades was a bit like a celebration. There was fillment, self-realization, togetherness in creativity, or A 
an extraordinary atmosphere. If the police had re- centering of your soul (that's for potters). Al)- ag coc SPACIOUS HALL AvDIC- blackboard, green 
treated, there would have been a marvelous explos- electric aes with portraits of VISUAL CLASSROOM with 
ion of joy, everybody would have celebrated the THE HARD LIFE sterile —— past principals, STORE rows of identical 
liberation of the Quarter. We'd even thought about prepares children for the illogicalities and hard xitcenen chairs, etc lists of scholars locked desks, fixed 
bringing along some orchestras. But the darker it ships of our present-day regimented existence. : 
got, the more the barricades got reinforced and multi- WAR BUSINESS TABOOS. 
plied, the more we realized that the attack of the points out the drawbacks of organized efficiency. of ateel 
cops, if it took place would provoke a massacre. FORCED TO READ SET BOOKS. 
That's why | agreed to go to the Rector’s (Roche shows how boredom can arise from enforced = 
of the Sorbonne), not to discuss anything but to activity and lead to inactivity. STAFP | Learning LIBRARY 
explain to him what was going to happen if the DOZING IN CLASS. ROOM . oor } 
cops didn't withdraw. satisfies a child's need for simplified, structured igarette mputerr Study carrels 
surroundings. YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. emocke, and controlled Books laswi fied 








Then to the accompaniment of loud boos and hisses, aubject 
with only a scattering of applause, the vice-president 
of the Ontario Union of Students tore up his Bachelor TO LOCAL LIBRARY 


of Arts diploma and marched out of the building » CINEMA ANT BC 


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ROOM. free 

access Sound mixer 

THE SOFT LIFE terminal tape editor 

prepares children for life as active individuals film splice 

TRY IT MY WAY 

points out the drawbacks of organized ineffici- sntormel 











ency. CAN'T FIND MY BOOK. 

shows how boredom may arise from freedom 
also, and lead to activity. MUSTN'T WASTE 
OPPORTUNITIES. 

satisfies a child’s need for diversity in explora- 
tory play. THIS IS JUST A MODEL. 

permits teachers to get to know children well, on 
equal terms. NO TALKING DOWN. 


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THE HARD-SOFT LIFE 
enjoys the advantages of the hard and soft. 
CONTRAST. 
shows how environment affects people and their 
work. GRAPH PAPER AEROPLANES. 
allows children to learn how to get the best of 
both hard and soft worlds. COMPUTERGRA- 
PHIC PAINTING. 
demonstrates the need to work in an intermedi 
ate zone. DRAMA IN A FRAME. 
permits teachers to teach the way they like best 
CHALKDUST FOR ME. 


‘tv points 










scaffolding 


One of the students looked at President Harris Wofford and 


is #5 
asked: “If we join your Socratic seminar, will you come and L Se gS ee Reeweece eS we a = J 
drop acid with us?” 


A geography teacher from Whitby spoke of how he started SO F | 


off teaching knowing so little about geography that he used 
to call it geometry. 





frei 

Ty gazine about Schools 
F 376 Terminal A 

T , Ontario, CANADA 


| discovering 
mathematical relationships 
Cuisenaire Rods with 


The first rod is a small wooden cube with a 1 } a Oo D S 


centimeter side. The second is twice as long 
with the same cross section. The third is three 
times as long as the first. Each length has its 
own color. With these rods, a child can learn 
arithmetical operations and mathematical 
relationships even though he recognizes no 
mathematical symbols. (Children are capable 
of grasping mathematical concepts before they 
have the mechanical ability to write. Therein 
lies one of the great advantages of Cuisenaire 
rods.) For example, if a child puts the first 
(white) and the second (red) rods end to end 
he can see that together they are equal in 
length to the third (green) rod. Once he real- 
izes that a white and a red always equal a green, 
he has learned something quite general about 
addition and equality. If, later, the numeral 
‘1' is associated with the first rod, ‘2’ with 
the second rod and ‘3’ with the third, he will 
be in a position to grasp at once that 1+2=3. 
° But the rods have no absolute numerical value 
so that if the value ‘1’ were assigned to the 
third rod rather than the first, the truth 











1/3 + 2/3 = 1 would also be forthcoming as This is undoubtedly one of the best pieces of 
‘proved’ by the general rule that the child teaching equipment ever invented. But it is 
discovered with the rods. important that you don't show children the Mathematics will give an idea of what's 

truths that the rods demonstrate. They must be going on when a child learns (as opposed 
What is happening here is that algebra (the allowed to discover these themselves or it to memorizing) math. 5: 
general case) is being learned before arithme- won't work. Mathematics with Numbers in =" lear heer 
tic (specific cases), as logically, it should be. Color, books A, B, C, D are a worthwhile pur- [Suggested by Virginia Baker ‘ 








Reviewed by Jane Burton] 














ITA 


ita 
vetz fron for 


reed and riet ar discer 


lod 5 1ck ov normal 
ita~aabet , it’s m ick\ 
Yiten laergwidy becums a tel in 


drag; She “kids commens reediy and retina on 
thar cen tem, jater on the mak the hift 
without pertic velar 
jyenerafhons mae not 


ta) normal idee otick spellig 
straen.Wun ov thes 
bother te /hift. 


ita has uther applicaaflions it beleev. 


for won, yw can heer riten lae rgwids 
Pa t. an ta translafhon ov 


FINNEGAN’S WAKE wad bee a recal servis. 


better wi 


rz with Conename Rods a he 
nji the formerly grim 
tw) the nou-delettuil . Utzueall kids lernag tw |? 
ridad noe end bie the 
Bu spellin With the 
3 


ard cogsistint . 


the inifhiai teechig alfavc: 


dexiesd in igland bie sir jams pitman and intreedttesd 
: 1963 in the uenieted stats, the inifhial «cchigq 


ova 


[A BETTER INFORMED REVIEW OF THIS SUBJECT IS NEEDED] 


There's ple «y of workbooks, manuals, library 
materials, etc. evailable from: 


Initial Ter Alphabet Publications, Inc. 
20 East eet 
New Yo 10017 


classes. 


The best how-to-do-it introductory text I've seen is 
“The ITA Handbook for Writing and Spelling’ 
Item No. 9-013. If you can get it by itself, it costs 


Promotional literature is free. 


LIFE Science Library 


AR it 


SOUND 
AND HEARING 


Learn by leaving books around. These books 
anyway. They get picked up randomly, gian- 
ced into, and hours later you're still there on 
the john or wherever helplessly engrossed in 
diagrams explaining the design of musical 
instruments. 


Rumor was, a few years ago during one of the 
Time-Life shuffles, that a lot of the best people 
there had gone into Time-Life books. | be- 
lieve it. This series is well edited, illustrated, 
and authored, Man and Space, for example, 
is by Arthur C. Clarke; Water, by Luna Leopold 
and Kenneth Davis, 





Most popular science books are badly behind 

the times. This series puts special emphasis 

on recent developments. 

The books are only availabl mail from Time-Life 


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PIECES OF A PICTURE 
The object of this perception test 1s to th io 
the messing preces $0 that a famuler pecture 
appears If the test remarmns purziing at sor 
mal reading distance. try it again from three or 
four feet before looking at the answer below 


54 





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Light and Vision 


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FOOD AND 
NUTRITION 





Inc 


A book comes every month or so, with a bill 
tor $3.73, and you either send the book 


back or pay up. Some are better than others, 


but we haven't sent one back yet. 


While the outermost reaches of Jupiter’s atmos- 
phere are extremely cold, the internal temper- 
ature is probably quite high, due to a “green- 
house effect,” in which the atmosphere acts as an 
insulator to hold in heat from the sun. Water might 
exist there, permitting the formation of the “organic 
soup” which sparked the first earthly seeds of life. 
It is now believed, in fact, that Jupiter's hydrogen- 
ammonia-methane type of atmosphere is what 
existed on the primitive earth in the days when life 
made its first appearance 





Bifocais — introduced to American in the 18th Century 
by Benjamin Franklin — help older people with rigid 

lens structure to focus at both near and far distances. 
The upper half of the spectacle lens gives slight correc- 
tion for distant viewing. The lower half is for 

close-up work; it provides the increased refraction 
needed to compensate for the increasing rigidity — 

and the inability to focus — of the aging lens. 


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tw help pecpl lern to reed. it hax 44 symbols, ech 
representig wun sound, which tak car ov the foenetic 
irreguelazritix ov the tradifhonal alfabet. after havig 
lernd tw reed with ita, the beginner transfers with 
«ex tw the tradifhonal alfabet 

the second yecr ov eksperimentafhon with 1t a in 
this cuntry hax fheen remarkabl effectivness, not cenly 
in meny first grads, but aulsee in remedial reedin, 
kindergarten reedig rediness, and adult illiterasy 








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caodn’t kwret reech the huny, 
after a littl whiel hee caulld doun tu yc. 
“cristofer robin!” hee sed in a loud 
whisper. 
“halla!” 
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that tha’r suspifhius!” 
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Although Jupiter's cloud cover is constant, most of 

the cloud markings we see there are quite transient, 
and disappear after a few days or weeks. However, 
there is one puzzling formation which-has remained 
visible, on and off, for at least 130 years. This is the 
famous Great Red Spot, an oval shaped mass lying 
parallel to the planet's equator and not far from it, 

in the Southern Hemisphere. The Great Red Spot 

is considerably larger than our entire earth, yet it 

drifts around Jupiter like a gigantic raft; it has made 
several revolutions of the planet during the century 
that it has been under intense observation. The most 
popular theory holds that the Great Red Spot is a huge 
meteorological disturbance. 
TWO LENSES IN ONE 


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Don Fabun is doing very well at his job of 
making Kaiser appear comprehensive and 
futuristic. The Kaiser Aluminum News that 

he edits comes out several times a year, each 
issue devoted to one large topic, such as com- 
munication, transportation, food crisis, etc. 
They are excellent compendiums of current 
thought, vividly illustrated and laid out. Best 
of all, they're free if you write Kaiser for 

single copies. 


inquire for their list at: 

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700 Science Experiments for Everyone EE ET A TL 


This book grew out of a smaller volume 
called Suggestions for Science Teachers in 
Devastated Areas whose production 

was sponsored by UNESCO right after 
World War Il. It was meant for use in 
schools whose buildings and labs had 
been destroyed and soon found its way 
into the hands of people who had never 
had these things to begin with. Thus 

it solves the problem of schools, commun- 
ities — people — who want to do ‘live’ science 
without money or equipment. There 





Also the book is unusually well written. 


There's no bullshit in it and it doesn't 
talk down to the reader. Just very 
straightforward instructions with illustra- 
tions that are highly readable. In 

most cases you aren't told the outcome 
of the experiment, an aspect which 
makes you much more interested in 
doing it. 


700 Science Experiments for Everyone 


[Jane Burton] 


Ap egg osmometer 
Place some dilute hydrochloric acid or strong 
vinegar in a shallow dish, such as a saucer, to 
a depth of about one centimetre. Hold the 
latge end of an egg in the acid until the shell 
has been eaten away on the end leaving the 
thin membrane exposed. Rinse the acid from 
the egg. With a sharp instrument work a 
small hole through the shell at the other end. 
Insert a soda straw or a length of glass tubing 
through the hole into the interior of the egg. 


‘ j ith house- 
isn’t any experiment in it which would on Seal the a ie around poche eget be 
be too costly for any of us to do. The - xen wage ght at ‘in : aa 
book tells you how to put together the $4.00 postpaid giass of water and let it stand for a few hours. 
equipment you need: real clever ways of 

making glass cutters, balances, burners, from: Making smoke prints of leaves 


telescopes, microscopes, etc. A lot of what 


Doub «day & Company, Inc. 


Smoke prints of leaves may be casily made by 


you need to do the experiments is just ay lin Avenue following the four steps shown in the diagrams, 
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A model illustrating how an eclipse 


or 


Edmund Scientific 


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appears pressure increases with depth i h, . —— 
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meter in a piece of blackened cardboard, The Ff the can about 3 cm apart. Put a sirip of 7 _ ‘ee = eC , es 
corona is drawn in red crayon around this _ “dhesive or plastic tape over the row of holes ; \ oa) 
hole. The moon is a wooden ball 2,$ cm dia- 2d filll the can with water above the top hole. A simple rotation machine ) Vg | ¥. 
meter mounted on a knitting needle. The Hold the can over a sink and strip the tape wk | <4 \ 
observer views the eclipse through any of from the holes beginning at the bottom. Secure a breast-drill or hand \ | q’ 
several large pin holes in a screen on the front Observe the streams and note the distances drill such as the one shown tn 
of the apparatus. The corona only becomes travelled outwards from the can. the diagiam. Clamp a small = es ere 5 
visible at the position of total eclipse. The wercw eye oF cup howk an the Cower vic side of a smooth, round bottle 
moon's position is adjusted by a stout wire Water pressure is the same in all chuck of the drill. Attach a 30 with a thin ktyer of grease or vaseline. Fill the 
bicycle spoke attached to the front of the directions gs Sen ee bottle with cold water and cork it tightly. 
7 he the point end of a spike, Muke a Hold the bottle over a candle flame until it ts 
sileiacigi Punch holes around the base of a tall tin ioop in the other und of the covered evenly with soot. Place a leaf, vein 
can with a nail. Cover the holes as above tring and attach it to the screw side up, on a layer of newspaper and roll the 
with a strip of tape. Fill the can with water eve in the chuck of the drill. sooty bottle over the leaf. Remove the leaf 
and strip off the tape while holding it over a Now rotate the ditil steadily and lay it vein side up on clean newspaper. 
sink. Observe and compare the distance the ”y crank, Observe how the cen- Cover the leaf with a sheet of white paper. 
streams shoot out from the holes all around rifugal force affects the sus- Neat, roll over the white paper and leaf with 
the can. pended spike. a clean round bottle or other roller, 
Edmund Scientific 
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Edmund is the best source we know of for low-cost scientific Balt PON WITH SCENTE THINK STICKS’ twe wooern srs FoR INDUSTRIAL, 
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we found independently, such as Dr. Nim, 700 Science Exper- Creste enciess comeler wanes. Here 29 the ideal visualering and Semenetrytion toe! tor trachers: 





iments, Geo-D-Stix, Spilhaus Space Clock, etc., turned up in 
the Edmund Catalog, so we were obliged to recognize that in 
this area we've been preceded. They list 4,000 items, they 
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WFF ‘N PROOF 


The WFF ‘N PROOF games came out of the 
ALL project (Accelerated Learning of Logic) 

at Yale Law School. This project was estab- 

lished in 1960 to develop materials to teach 

mathematical logic to elementary school stu- 
dents. The authors’ first principle in design- 

ing the games was that they be fun to play. 


The primary aim of WIFF ‘'N PROOF is to encour- 
age a favorable attitude toward symbol manipulation 
activities in general and, incidentally, to teach some- 
thing about mathematical logic and provide practice 
in abstract thinking. 


[From the introduction to the WIFF 'N PROOF manual.] 


WFF ‘N PROOF is a series of 21 games. The 
first ones can be played by children (starting 
around age eight), the last ones are difficult 
enough to interest logicians. The first game 
can be bought separately under the name of 
just 'WFF’. It is the best game and children 
always like to play it. In it you learn what 

a WFF (well formed formula) is, and there 

is no nicer way of doing that. The rest of 

the games teach you about constructing logi- 
cal proofs. They are more tedious and a good 
teacher can find ways of doing this which are 
more fun. There's no harm in getting the 
whole set, however, and using it as long as it 
works. 


[Reviewed by Jane Burton] 


WFF $1 .50 postpaid 
wrF ‘N PROOF $6.50 postpaid 


from: 


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PC au 

Ne + 1, Conn 06501 
or i sok stores 


Also worth investigating from WFF 'N PROOF are: 

Tac Tickle $1 25 postpaid (We play it in bed) 

The REAL Numbers Game $1 25 postpaid 

On - Sets: The Game of Set Theory $4.50 postpaid 


Equations $3.50 postpaid 


The Propaganda Game $5.50 postpaid 


Dr. Nim 


Arrange 15 matches in 3 rows with 3 in the 
first row, 5 in the second row, and 7 in the 
third row. 
‘td 
seerl 
Preeti 


This is a game for two players. You win by 
forcing your opponent to pick up the last 
match. When it’s your turn, you play by 
taking as many matches as you like from 

any row (you may take the whole row if you 
like) but from one row only. This is the game 
of NIM and is actually a logical puzzle, for the 
first player can always win once he knows the 
winning strategy. The puzzle is to figure out 
that strategy. 


Dr. Nim is a simple but amazingly clever com- 
puter which is programmed to play a perfect 
game of NIM with you. But Dr. Nim goes sec- 
ond so it is possible to beat him. He will win 
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winning strategy. 


Dr. Nim is played with marbles instead of 
matches and the marbles are taken off the 
board by being released by a mechanical 
trigger When it is Dr. Nim’s turn to play you 
press the trigger once for him and then, if it's 
in his best interest to release more marbles, 
he will do so by running the marble over the 
trigger. 


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game which tells you a little about computers 
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to give kids (or grown-ups) an idea of how 


computers work. 
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are going to say next. When they say the next sen- 
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Sense Relaxation 


Becoming 

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Most people are half breathers, 
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This is a book which is an experience while it teaches you how 

to have additional experiences. It is a combination of simple 
straight forward how-to-do-it prose broken by puns (to slow 

down your reading) plus sensual photographs of every exercise. 
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words; the pictures are so compelling. The second and third 
times through you will read individual sections to find out what 
the pictures suggest. Finally you will begin to use this book to 
add touch, relaxation and pleasure to your life, This book gives 
very specitic and easily followed exercises for individuals, couples, 


deep breath even if they want to. 
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SELF HYPNOTISM: 


LESLIE M. LECRON 


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PSYCHO- 
CYBERNETICS 


A New lechoique for Using Y 


SLBCONSCIOUS POWER 


MAXWELL MALTZ, wo rcs 








Self Hypnotism 


On of the things that intrigues me most 
about hypnotism is that no one knows how 

it works-which accounts for some of its disre- 
pute. No common factors, for example, have 
been found to pre-distinguish susceptibles 
from non-susceptibles. Black box business. 


Lecron doesn't talk about any of this. He’s 
concerned with how you can detect and de- 
suggest old imprinted hang-ups and suggest 

in new ones you like better. (One subject 
suggested herself larger breasts, and got them.) 


Possibly the most general use of this book 
is its clear delineation of a simple avenue 
in a meditative technique without much 
dogma. There's a lot of hypnosis books; 
this is the best we’ve seen. 


Self Hypnotism 

Leslie M. Lecron 

1964; 220 pp. 

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Psycho-cybernetics 


This strange and gaudy volume will probably 
turn you off if you associate wisdom with sub- 
dued writing or humble exposition. However, 
if you can overcome your initial resistence to 
the high-pressure, breezy style and the some- 
times excessive claims, it will be worth the 
effort. Dr. Maltz has outlined perhaps the 
easiest program of personality development 
and modification in print. It is easy because 
it contains nothing but the suggested exercises 
and the understanding that the motivation 

to change is still the most powerful tool. 


This is not a book to read. It is a kit of tools 
to use in gaining control of your nature for 
whatever ends you desire. The author has 
made it clear that there is no virtue in being 
obscure or even in being poetic if it detracts 
from getting the reader off his ass and doing 
something about himself. 


There is an assumption of a higher self or a 
core to one’s being which tends toward reali- 
zation or whatever term you prefer but under 
standing of this inner nature is not vital to 
using the book. 
What we need to understand is that these habits, 
unlike addictions, can be modified, changed, or 
reversed, simply by taking the trouble to make a 
conscious decision — and then by practicing or 
“acting out” the new response or behavior. 


Simple? Yes. But each of the above habitual ways 
of acting, feeling, thinking does have beneficial and 

constructive influence on your self-image. Act them 
out for 21 days. ‘Experience’ them and see if worry, 
guilt, hostility have not been diminished and if con- 

fidence has not been increased. 


So, why not give yourself a face lift? Your do-it- 
yourself kit consists of relaxation of negative tensions 
to prevent scars, therapeutic forgiveness to remove old 
scars, providing yourself with a tough (not a hard) 
epidermis instead of a shell, creative living, a willing- 
ness to be a little vulnerable, and a nostalgia for the 
future instead of the past. 


If the above puts you off than this is not the 
book for your use. If this totally western way 
of dealing with yourself interests you, this 
book is far better than most of the other pop- 
enlightenment books around. 


[Suggested and reviewed by James Fadiman] 


Psycho-cybernetics 


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1960; 256 pp. 


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Now that you are comfortable you will listen closely 
to my voice and will follow alll the suggestions given 
This will teach you how to enter hypnosis and how 
to produce it yourself. Your eyes are now closed. 
Take another deep breath, hold it a few seconds and 
let it out. 


The more you can relax, the deeper you will be able 
to go into hypnosis. Let all your muscles go as loose 
and limp as possible. To do this start with you right 
leg. Tighten the muscles first, making the leg rigid. 
Then let it relax from you toes up to your hip. 

Then tighten the muscles of the left leg. Let that 

leg relax from the toes up to the hip. 


Let the stomach and abdominal area relax; then your 
chest and breathing muscles. The muscles of your 
back can loosen—your shoulders and neck muscles 
relaxing. Often we have tension in this area, Let all 
these muscles loosen. Now your arms from the 
shoulders right down to your finger tips. Even your 
facial muscles will relax. Relaxation is so pleasant 
and comfortable. Let go completely and enjoy the 
relaxation. All tension seems to drain away and you 
soon find a listlessness creeeping over you, with a 
sense of comfort and well-being. 


As you relax more and more, you will slip deeper 
and deeper into hypynosis. Your arms and legs may 
develop a feeling of heaviness. Or instead you may 
find your whole body feeling ver light, as though 

you are floating on a soft cloud. 


Now imagine that you are standing at the top of 

an escalator such as those in some stores. See the 
steps moving down in front of you, and see the 
railings. | am going to count from ten to zero. As 

| start to count, imagine you are stepping on the 
escalator, standing there with your hands on the 
railing while the steps move down in front of you 
taking you with them. If you prefer, you can ima- 
gine a staircase or an elevator instead. If you have 
any difficulty visualizing the escalator or staircase 
or elevator, just the count itself will take you deeper 
and deeper. 


(Slowly) TEN— now you step on and start 

going down. NINE-EIGHT-SEVEN-SIX. Going deeper 
and deeper with each count. FIVE-FOUR-THREE. 

Still deeper. TWO-ONE and ZERO. Now you step 

off at the bottom and will continue to go deeper stil! 
with each breath you take. You are so relaxed and 
comfortable. Let go still more. Notice your breath- 
ing. Probably it is now slower and you are breathing 
more from the bottom of you lungs, abdominal 
breathing. 


In a moment you will notice you hand and arm are 
beginning to lose any feeling and heaviness and are 
becoming light. If you are right-handed it will be 
your right arm, if left-handed, it will be the left. 

The arm is getting lighter and lighter. It will begin 
to lift. Perhaps just the fingers will move first, or 
the whole hand will start to float up. It will float 
toward your face, as though your face was a mag- 
net pulling it up until the fingers touch you face 
someplace. Let's see where that will be. The arm 
begins to bend at the elbow. It is floating upward. 
If it has not started of its own accord, lift it volun- 
tarily a few inches to give it a start. it will continue 
to go up of its own accord with no further effort. 

It floats on up toward your face, higher and higher. 
The higher your hand goes the deeper you will go. 
The deeper you go, the higher the hand will go. 
Lifting, lifting, floating up higher and higher. Going 
higher and higher. Now if it has touched your face 
let your hand go down to any comfortable position. 
If it has not touched yet, it can continue to float up 
until it does touch. You can forget about the arm 
while | tell you how you can put yourself into hyp- 
nosis whenever you may wish to do so. 


You will use much the same method being used now, 
When you have made yourself comfortable, you will 
merely close your eyes and drift into hypnosis. But 
in your first three or four practice sessions it would 
help you if you first lit a candel and when you have 
made yourself comfortable would look at the flick- 
ering flame for two or three minutes. Then close 
your eyes. 


Then you will think to yourself the phrase, “Now 

| am going into hypnosis." Then repeat to your- 
self the words, “Relax now” three times, saying 
them very slowly. As you do this you will slip off 
into hypnosis. You say nothing aloud, you merely 
think these words. When you have done this, take 
another deep breath to help you relax more and go 
through the relaxation just as you have done before. 
Tell your muscles to relax as | have done. 


When you have finally relaxed your arms, imagine 
the escalator, elevator or staircase. Now you should 
count backward from ten to zero, including the 

zero. Count slowly. In your first four practice 
sessions repeat the count three times, as though 
going down different levels. With practice you 

need only count once. 


Whenever you are ready to awaken all you need to 
do is think to yourself, “ Now | am going to wake 
up.” Then count slowly to three and you will be 
wide awake. You will always awaken refreshed, 
relaxed and feeling fine. 


While you are in hypnosis if something should 
happen so you should awaken, you will do so 
instantly and spontaneoulsy—something such as 

the phone ringing or a real emergency like a fire. 
You will awaken instatntly and be wide awake and 
fully alert. Actually this would happen without 

such a suggestion being necessary, for you subcon- 
scious mind always protects you. 


Now | will count to three and you will be wide 

awake. then If convenient you should then go through 
this formula for self-hypnosis and put yourself 

back in. You will remember the formula and go 
through it exactly as given. Now, awaken as 

| count, ONE. Coming awake now. TWO-almost 
awake. THREE—now you are wide awake. Wide 
awake. 














A Yaqui Way of Knowledge 


This book records the experiences of an anthropology student He looked at me for a long time and laughed. He said that learning Once a man has vanquished fear, he is free from it for the rest of his 
who becomes the apprentice of don Juan, a Yaqui indian “man through conversation = bee only a waste, ae ppdnerti Seen ue oe a he Soudepinelr — - x pets of haloes 

” ; diye ” learning was the most difficult task a man could undertake. He which erases fear. By then a man knows his desires; he knows how to 
of knowledge who s also a diablero F a black sorcerer. It asked me to remember the time | had tried to find my spot, and satisfy those desires. He can anticipate the new steps of learning, and 
is a profoundly disturbing book since it opens up areas and how | wanted to find it without doing any work because | had ex- a sharp clarity surrounds everything. The man feels that nothing is 
ideas we usually dismiss or deny. Don Juan, over a period of pected him to hand out all the information. If he had done so, he concealed. 
five years, teaches the author a little of his knowledge. He ae | would never have learned. But, knowing how Fgeate was aie ng be oe ee He second ey Bi clarity 

as P ; : si to find my spot and, above all, knowing that it existed, would give of mind, which is so hard to obtain, dispels fear, but also blinds. 
teaches through giving his apprentice various psycho-active me a unique sense of confidence. He said that while | remained 
plants: peyote, datura, and a mixture of psilocybin mushrooms, rooted to my “good spot” nothing could cause me bodily harm, “| say it is useless to waste your life on one path, especially if that 
genista canariensis, and other plants, Each of these plants has because | had the assurance that at that particular spot | was at my path has no heart.” 
its own way of teaching, its own demands and its own kind of very best. | had the power to shove off anything that might be “But how do you know when a path has no heart, don Juan?” 
harmful to me. If, however, he had told me where it was, | would “Before you embark on it you ask the question Does this path have a 

power. For those of us who thought we understood psyche- never have had the confidence needed to claim it as true knowledge. heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose 
delic effects this book reveals the rudimentary state of our Thus, knowledge was indeed power. another path.” 
knowledge. For those of us who have dismissed magic as a “But how will | know for sure whether a Path has a heart or not?” 


“Anybody would know that. The trouble is nobody asks the question 
and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart 
the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to 
deliberate, and leave the path.” 

“How should | proceed to ask the question properly, don Juan?” 
“Just ask it.” 

“| mean, is there a proper method, so | would not lie to myself and 
believe the answer is yes when it really is no?” 

“Why would you lie?” 

“Perhaps because at the moment the path is pleasant and enjoyable.” 
“That is nonsense. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You 
have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with 
heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.” 


combination of hypnotism and stage effects we are confronted 
with powerful and effective magic which seems irrefutable. 


Don Juan himself appears as a powerful, indecipherable, wise 
man whose knowledge is both extensive and alien to our own. 
He offers to each of us the possibility of dealing with other 
realities, but he makes it clear that all these ways are danger- 
ous, difficult and once entered, cannot be put aside as simply 
another experience. 


The goal of his teaching is partially expressed as follows: 
You have the vanity to believe you live in two worlds, but that is only 
your vanity. There is but one single world for us. We are men, and 
must follow the world of men contentedly. 


The particular thing to learn is how to get to the crack between the 
worlds and how to enter the other world. There is a crack between 
the two worlds, the world of the diableros and the world of living 
men. There is a place where these two worlds overlap. The crack 
is there. It opens and closes like a door in the wind. To get there 
aman must excercise his well. He must, | should say, develop an 
indomitable desire for it, a single-minded dedication. But he must 
do it without the help of any power or any man...” 


“But is this business of the dog and me pissing on each other true?” 
“It was not a dog! How many times do | have to tell you that? This 
is the only way to understand it. It’s the only way! It was ‘he’ who 
played with you.” 


“Let's put it another way, don Juan. What! meant to say is that if 

| had tied myself to a rock with a heavy chain | would have flown 
just the same, because my body had nothing to do with my flying.” 
Don looked at me incredulously. “If you tie yourself to a rock,” 

he said, “I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its 
heavy chain.” 


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Fundamentals of Yoga 


Mishra has practised as general physician, surgeon and endocrinol- 
ogist in India and the West and has a thorough know- 
ledge of Western medicine as well as yoga. This makes his 
book invaluable to the student desiring a detailed scientific 
understanding of yogic theory and methods. The book con- 
tains several interesting diagrams of physical systems and 
psycho-physical planes of consciousness. 





“Now you are in your native land. Now you do not know where your 
body is. The entire universe is in you and you are in the entire uni- 
verse. Innumerable suns, stars, and planets are moving in you. Feel 
it, enjoy your real life.” Complete silence. 


Adopt an easy posture. 

Relax your entire body. 

Feel your heart pumping in the chest. 
Hold your breath, 


Being a practising teacher of yoga, Mishra writes in a forth- : ; 
In a moment you will feel that heart rate and vigor of beat are 


right direct style and gives, in each chapter, excercises ar- 


QPons 


; : increased. 
ranged in numbered steps, to practice the methods des- 6. With every heartbeat, the heart is sending energy to every part of the 
cribed. The physical, or hatha yoga methods are described body. Feel it. 


7. With increased heart rate and beat, energy is changed into electro 


i f ; 
nn some deta, though still only-as preparatory to the other magnetic pulsation and the entire body is filled with it. Feel it. 


types of exercises. Methods not usually des- F lJ N DA M F NTA t § 8. The entire is not magnetized, and the spiritual heart and spiritual con 
cribed in other works on yoga — such as tratakam (concent- sciousness are fully manifested in you. Feel them. 

rated gazing) and nadam (tuning in to inner sound-vibration) ) ; YO GA 9. The whole body becomes the heart of the universe, and you feel that 
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11 Now you know that your consciousness is never a product of the 
body, but is manifested in the body. 

12.Feel that your body is one point of manifestation of consciousness, 

but you are everywhere. ....... 

One might find fault with the book’s somewhat excessive load 

of Hindu terminology, much of which is redundant, and 

of more interest to students of Indian culture than to prac- 

titioners. 


There are innumerable varieties of nadam, but they will be impractical 
for beginners. The following ten are the most useful and frequent: 


1. Cin nadam: Like the hum of the honey-intoxicated bees; idling 
engine vibration; rainfall; whistling sounds; high frequency sound. 
Cincin nadam: Waterfall, roaring of an ocean. 

Ghanta nadam: Sound of a bell ringing. 

Sankha nadam: Sound of a conch shell. 

Tantri vina; Nasal sound, humming sound like that of a wire string 
instrument 


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The Act of Creation 


Koestler takes his notion of bisociation to be the root of humor, 
discovery, and art. | take it to be one of the roots of learning, subject 
to applications of method (on yourself or whomever). 


Koestler is a scientist of some reputation by now. He’s made contri- 
butions beyond the work of others that he’s generalized from. This 
is the book that gave him the reputation . 


There are two ways of escaping our more or less automized routines of thinking and behav- 
ing. The first, of course, is the plunge into dreaming or dream-like 

states, when the codes of rational thinking are suspended. The other way is 
also an escape — from boredom, stagnation, intellectual predicaments, and emo- 
tional frustration-but an escape in the opposite direction; it is signaled by the 
spontaneous flash of insight which shows a familiar situation or event in a new 
light, and elicits a new response to it. The bisociative act connects previously 
unconnected matrices of experience; it makes us ‘understand what it is to be 
awake, to be living on several planes at once’ (to quote T.S. Eliot, somewhat 

out of context). 


The first way of escape is a regression to earlier, more primitive levels of ideation 
exemplified in the language of the dream; the second an ascent to a new, more 
complex level of mental evolution. Though seemingly opposed, the two pro- 
cesses will turn out to be intimately related. 


et eet ae eee heme 
When two independent matrices of perception or reasoning interact with each = 
other the result (as | hope to show), is either a collision ending in laughter, or THE ACT OF CREATION 
their fusion in a new intellectual synthesis, or their confrontation in an aesthetic 
experience. The bisociative patterns found in any domain of creative activity by Arthur Keestter 
are tri-valent: that is to say, the same pair of matrices can produce comic, tragic, pe yg tt 


or intellectually challenging effects. ort af gpm + 
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The re-structuring of mental organization effected by the new discovery implies 
that the creative act has a revolutionary or destructive side. The path of history 

is strewn with its victims: the discarded isms of art, the epicycles and phlogistons 
of science. 

Associative skills, on the other hand, even of the sophisticated kind which re- 
quire a high degree of concentration, do not display the above features. 


I have coined the term ‘bisociation’ in order to make a distinction 
between the routine skills of thinking on a single ‘plane’, as it were, 
and the creative act, which, as I shall try to show, always operates on 





more than one plane. The former may be called single-minded, the latter a 
double-minded, transitory state of unstable equilibrium where the balance of 
both emotion and thought is disturbed. 


Everybody can ride a bicycle, but nobody knows how it is done. Not even engi- 
neers and bicycle manufacturers know the formula for the correct method of 
counteracting the tendency to fall by turning the handlebars so that ‘for a given 
angle of unbalance the curvature of each winding is inversely proportional to the 
square of the speed at which the cyclist is proceeding’. The cyclist obeys a code 
of rules which is specifiable, but which he cannot specify; he could write on his 
number-plate Pascal's motto: “Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait 
point.” Or, to put it in a more abstract way: 


The controls of a skilled activity generally function below the level of conscious- 


Their biological equivalents are the activities of the organism while in a state of dy- 
namic equilibrium with the environment — as distinct from the more spectac- 

ular manifestations of its regenerative potentials. The skills of reasoning rely 

on habit, governed by well-established rules of the game; the ‘reasonable 

person’ — used as a standard norm in English common law-is level-headed in- 
stead of multi-level-headed; adaptive and not destructive; an enlightened conser- 
vative, not a revolutionary; willing to learn under proper guidance, but unable 

to be guided by his dreams. 

The main distinguishing features of associative and bisociative thought may 

now be summed up, somewhat brutally, as follows: 


ness on which that activity takes place. The code is a hidden persuader. 


This applies not only to our visceral activities and muscular skills, but also to the 
skill of perceiving the world around us in a coherent and meaningful manner. 

Hold your left hand six inches, the other twelve inches, away from your eyes; 
they will look about the same size, although the retinal image of the left is 

twice the size of the right. Trace the contours of your face with a soapy finger 

on the bathroom mirror (it is easily done by closing one eye). There is a shock 
waiting: the image which looked life-size has shrunk to half-size. Like a head 
hunter's trophy. A person walking away does not seem to become a dwarf — as 
he should; a black glove looks just as black in the sunlight as in shadow — though 





The Act of Creation 


Habit , a Originality ’ Arthur Koestler it should not; when a coin is held before the eyes in a tilted position its retinal 
Association within the confines Bisociation of independent matrices 1964; 750 pp projection will be a more or less flattened ellipse; yet we see it as a circle, because 
of befired diol matrix : , $1 25 ‘ we know it to be a circle; and it takes some effort to see it actually as a squashed 
Guidance by pre-conscious or Guidance by sub-conscious processes . postpaid oval shape. Seeing is believing, as the saying goes, but the reverse is also true: 
extra-conscious processes normally under restraint : knowing is seeing. ‘Even the most elementary perceptions,’ wrote Bartlett ‘have 
Dynamic equilibrium Activation of regenerative potentials from the character of inferential constructions.' But the inferential process, which 

Rigid to flexible variations on Super-flexibility (reculer pour mieux Dy ashing Company, Inc. controls perception, again works unconsciously. Seeing is a skill, part innate, 

2 theme sauter) v goatee’ 17 part acquired in early infancy. The selective codes in this case operate on the 
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Conservative Destructive-Constructive 


raw material of our conscious experience — the ‘booming, buzzing confusion’ of 
William James; before reaching awareness the input is filtered, processed, dis- 
torted, interpreted, and reorganized in a series of relay-stations at various levels 
of the nervous system; but the processing itself is not experienced by the person, 
and the rules of the game according to which the controls work are unknown 


The | Ching to him 


O} Miwst 200k stores, 


The | Ching, the Book of Changes, is a brilliant problem-solv- 
ing device. A problem (or ignorance) generally consists of 
being caught in local cyclic thinking. To consult the oracle, 

the wisdom of chance (or synchronicity, no matter), is to step 
out of the cycle of no-change and address a specific story on 
the nature of change. You now have an alternative set of solu- 
tions that owe nothing but proximity to your problem You 
make the associations, you find the way out. It's prayer. 


49. Ko/Revolution (Molting) 





above TUI The Joyous, Lake 
below LI The Clinging, Fire 


i 





The Chinese character for this hexagram means in its original sense an 
animal's pelt, which is changed in the course of the year by molting. 
From this the word is carried over to apply to the “moltings” in poli- 

tical life, the great revolutions connected with changes of governments. 
The two trigrams making up the hexagram are the same two that appear 
in K’uei, OPPOSITION (38), that is, the two younger daughters, Li and 


| can’t think of a more important and useful book than this 
one. It’s famously ancient, poetic, deep, esoteric, simple, 


involving. It has been the most influential book on Amer- Tui. But where there the elder of the two daughters is above, and what t 
: i i results is essentially only an opposition of tendencies, here the younger +| HING 
ican art and artists in the last 15 daughter is above. The influences are in actual conflict, and the forces t 


: - combat each other like fire and water (lake), each trying to destroy the 
Most people know about it. We've included it here to point other. Hence the idea of revolution. 


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tS 5 REVOLUTION On your own day 
The oracle method is still on page 721. You are believed. 


Supreme success, 
Furthering through perseverance. 
Remorse disappears 


Political revolutions are extremely grave matters. They should be 
undertaken only under stress of direst necessity, when there is no 
other way out. Not everyone is called to this task, but only the man 
who has the confidence of the people, and even he only when the scibnileiisints 
time is ripe. He must then proceed in the right way, so that he gladdens ane aan 
the people and, by enlightening them, prevents excesses. Furthermore, 
he must be quite free of selfish aims and must really relieve the need 

of the people. Only then does he have nothing to regret. 

Times change, and with them their demands. Thus the seasons change 
in the course of the year. In the world cycle also there are spring and 
autumn in the life of peoples and nations, and these call for social 
transformations. 





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440/349-4004, www.isee.org. 


28 Cats' Paws and Catapults: 
Mechanical Worlds of Nature 

and People 

Steven Vogel. 1998; 382 pp. $27.50. 
W.W. Norton. 

Life in Moving Fluids: 

The Physical Biology of Flow 
Steven Vogel. 2nd edition 1996; 

488 pp. $25. Princeton University Press. 


Home Power Magazine 
Richard Perez, editor. $22.50/year 
(6 issues). PO Box 520, 

Ashland, OR 97520, 
800/707-6585, 530/475-0830, 
www.homepower.com, 


29 van Waters & Rogers Catalog 
6100 Carillon Point, 

Kirkland, WA 98033, 

425/889-3400, 800/234-4588, 
www.vwr-na.com. 


Bookmaking 
Marshall Lee. 4th edition, 1998; 
512 pp. $60. W.W. Norton. 


Zone System Manual 

Minor White. 1967; 112 pp. $14.95. 
Morgan and Morgan, PO Box 595 
Airport Road, Keene Valley, NY 12943, 
800/305-0766, 518/576-4423, 
Wwww.morganmorgan.com. 


30 Beginning Glassblowing 
Edward T. Schmid. 2nd edition, 1998; 
120 pp. $24.95. 

Advanced Giassworking 
Techniques 

Edward T. Schmid. 1998; 320 pp. $32.95. 
both from Glass Mountain Press, 

927 Yew Street, 

Bellingham, WA 98226, 
360/733-3497. 

Glass Notes 

Henry Halem. 3rd edition, 1996; 

291 pp. $30. Franklin Mills Press, 

PO Box 906, Kent, OH 44240-2303, 
330/673-8632, www.glassnotes.com. 


Living Materials: A Sculptor's 
Handbook 

Oliver Andrews. 1988; 349 pp. $34.95. 
University of California Press. 


31 Tandy Leather and Crafts 
Catalog 

133 North Euclid Avenue, 
Ontario, CA 91762, 
800/555-3130, 909/984-6341, 
www.tandyleather.com. 


Elliot Greene Bead Catalog 

37 West 37th Street, New York, NY 
10018, 212/391-9075. 

Beads and trimmings. 

Patternworks Catalog: 

Yarn and Knitting Supplies 

PO Box 1690, Poughkeepsie, NY 
12601, 800/438-5464, 914/462-8000, 
www.patternworks.com. 





34 Calculators 

$45 - $265. Hewlett-Packard. 
Twelve models of scientific, financial 
and graphic hand-held caiculators 
and Palmtop PCs. 


Cybernetics 

Norbert Wiener. 2nd 
edition, 1972; 212 pp. $15. 
MIT Press. 


35 Eye and Brain 

R.L. Gregory. 5th edition, 
1998; 288 pp. $18.95. 
Princeton University Press. 


Education Automation 

1962; $6. Available from Buckminster 
Fuller Institute, 2040 Alameda Padre 
Serra #224, Santa Barbara, CA 93193, 
805/962-0022, 800/967-MAPS, 
www.bfi.com. 


37 Heathkit Educational Systems 
Riverview Drive, Benton Harbor, MI 
49022, 800/253-0570, 616/925-2898, 
www. heathkit.com. 

Courses and support material for 
educational and industrial training. 


Full Line Catalog 

The Drawing Board, PO Box 2995, 
Hartford, CT 06104-2995, 
800/527-9530, 860/379-9911. 


38 American Cinematographer 
Magazine 

Stephen Pizzello, executive editor. 
$40/year (12 issues). 

American Cinematographer 
Manual 

Rod Ryan, ed. 7th edition, 1993; 585 
pp. $49.95. The ASC Press, 1782 N. 
Orange Drive, Hollywood, CA 90028, 
800/4480145, 213/969-4333, 
www.cinematographer.com. 


Modern Video Production 

Carl Hausman and Philip J. Palombo. 
1993; 315 pp. $50.63. 

Addison Wesley Longman. 


The Independent Film and 
Videomaker's Guide 

Michael! Wiese. 1998; 475 pp. $29.95. 
Michael! Wiese Productions, 

1128 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 821, 
Studio City, CA 91604, 
800/833-5738, 818/379-8799, 
www.mwp,com. 


39 Techniques of Television 
Production 

Gerald Millerson, 12th 

edition, 1990; 566 pp. $64.95. 
Focal Press, 225 Wildwood Avenue, 
Woburn, MA 01801, 

800/366-2665, 781/804-2500, 
www.bh.com/fp. 


Chilton's Repair Manuals 
$22.95 - $59.95, NP/Chilton's, 
1020 Andrew Drive, Suite 200, 
West Chester, PA 19380-4291, 
800/695-1214, 610/738-9280. 

730 car care titles for do-it-your- 
seffers, including books for specific 
models and years. 


40 Publishers Weekly 

Nora Rawlinson, editor in chief. 
$169/year (52 issues). 245 West 17th 
Street, New York, NY 10011, 
800/278-2991, 310/978-6916, 
www.bookwire.com/pw. 


Books in Print 

9 volumes. 1999; $550. CD-ROM 
version: monthly: $1,195, quarterly: 
$795, semi-annually: $695, 

R.R. Bowker, 121 Chanlon Road, 
New Providence, NJ 07974 
888/269-5372, 908/464-6800, 
www.bowker.com. 





Print Finders 

39 Walworth Avenue, Scarsdale, 
NY 10583-1433, 914/725-2332, 
www.printfinders.com,. 

Searches by title, artist, theme or 
design needs. 


41 Communities Directory 

2nd edition, 1996; 440 pp. $25 ($28 
postpaid). Fellowship for 

Intentional Community, Route 1, 
Box 155-D, Rutledge, MO 63563, 
660/883-5545. 


Communities: Journal of 
Cooperative Living 

Diana Leafe Christian, editor. 
$18/year (4 issues), Route 1, 
Box 155, Rutledge, MO 63563, 
660/883-5545, www.ic.org. 


Green Revolution 

$20 yearly membership includes the 
quarterly newsletter. School of Living, 
432 Leaman Road, Cochranville, 

PA 19330, 620/593-6988. 


The Realist 

Paul Krassner, editor. $14/7 final issues. 
Box 1230, Venice, CA 90294, 
310/392-5848, 

To be discontinued after six more issues, 


42 Dune 

Frank Herbert. Special edition, 1990; 
536 pp. $6.99. Ace Books/Berkeley 
Publishing Group. 

Groups Under Stress 

Roiand Radloff and Robert Heimreich. 
1968; 200 pp. $30.50. Irvington 
Press, PO Box 286, Cooper Station, 
New York, NY 10276-0286, 
888/267-7323, 603/623-5204, 
www.scry.com/ayer. 


43 Merck Manual 

Robert Berkow, M.D, ed. 17th edition, 
1999; 2800 pp. $35. 

Merck Publishing Group, PO Box 
2000, RY60 - 217, Rahway, NJ 07065, 
800/659-4600, 732/594-4600, 
www.merck.com. 

18th edition will be published in 
March, 1999. 





Finding and Buying Your Place in 
the Country 

Les Scher and Carol Scher. 

2nd edition, 1996; 414 pp. $25.95. 
Dearborn Financial Publishing, 

155 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, 

IL 60606-1719, 

800/638-0375, 312/836-4400, 
www.dearborn.com. 


Rural Property Bulletin 

$16/year (12 issues). 

PO Box 608, Valentine, NE 69201, 
402/376-2617, www.cnweb.com/rural/, 


Consumer Ri 

Jacqueline Leo, editorial director. 
$24/year (13 issues). Consumers 
Union, 101 Truman Avenue, 
Yonkers, NY 10703-1057, 
800/695-4051, 914/378-2000, 
www.ConsumerReports.org. 


44 online Access to Government 
Documents 
www.access.gpo.gov/index.html. 


Never Pay Retail: How to Save 20% 
to 80% on Everything You 

Sid Kirchheimer, ed, 1996; 482 pp. 
$17.95. Rodale Press. 


45 Loompanics Unlimited 
Catalog 

$5, or free with order. PO Box 1187, 
Port Townsend, WA 98368, 
800/380-2230, 360/385-2230, 
www.loompanics.com, 

The “lunatic fringe of the libertarian 
movement" provides how-to-survive 
books, 


46 survival Arts of the Primitive 
Paiutes 

Margaret M. Wheat, 1967; 117 pp. 
$17.95. University of Nevada Press. 


47 Camping and Woodcraft 
Horace Kephart. 1917; 912 pp. $14.95. 
University of Tennessee Press. 


The Rainshed Inc.: Outdoor 
Fabrics and Supplies Catalog 
707 NW 11th Street, 

Corvallis, OR 97330, 
541/753-8900. 


The Backpacker's Handbook 
Chris Townsend. 2nd edition, 1996; 
30 pp. $18.95. McGraw-Hill. 


48 1... Bean Catalog 
Freeport, ME 04033, 800/221-4221, 
207/552-6878, www.llbean.com. 


REI Catalog 

1700 45th Street East, 
Sumner, WA 98390, 
800/426-4840, 253/891-2500, 
www.rei.com. 


49 Gerry Baby Carriers 

$34.98 - $99.98. Evenflo, 1801 
Commerce Drive, Piqua, OH 45356, 
800/448-9411, 937/773-3971, 
www.evenflo.com. 


Kaibab Boots 

$58 - $98. Kaibab Moccasins, Inc., 
PO Box 17540, Tuscon, 

AZ 85731-7540, 520/573-0595. 


50 Thermal Springs of the United 
States and Other Countries of the 
World — A Summary 

Gerald A. Waring. 1965; 383 pp. $13. 
United States Geological Survey, 
Department of the Interior, Box 2546, 
Denver Federal Center, 

Denver, CO 80225, 800/HELP-MAP, 
303/202-4200, www.usgs.gov/. 


National Geographic 

William L. Allen, editor. $27/year 

(12 issues). National Geographic 
Society, PO Box 98199, Washington, 
DC 20090-8199, 

800/647-5463, 813/979-6845, 
www.nationalgeographic.com. 


7 Sierra Club 
$35 annual membership includes 
bimonthly Sierra Magazine. 
85 Second Street, 2nd floor, 
San Francisco, CA 94105, 
415/977-5500, www.sierraclub.org. 


The Narrow Road to the Deep North 
Matsuo Basho. Translated by Nobuyuki 
Yuasa. 1966; 167 pp. $11.95. Penguin. 


Trout Fishing in America, the Pill 
Versus the Springhill Mind 
Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar 
Richard Brautigan. 1989; 359 pp. 
$13.95. Houghton Mifflin. 


52 Toward a Theory of Instruction, 
Jerome S, Bruner. 1966; 176 pp. 
$12.50. Harvard University Press. 


53 THIS Magazine 

Andrea Curtis, editor, $34 
Canadian/year (6 issues). 

401 Richmond Street West #396, 
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8, Canada, 
416/979-9429. 


Cuisenaire Rods Catalog 
Cuisenaire Company of America, 

PO Box 5026, White Plains, NY 10602, 
800/239-3142, 914/997-2600, 
www.cuisenaire.com. 

Cuisenaire rods, teaching materials, 
and books. 


55 700 Science Experiments for 
Everyone 

1964; 256 pp. $17.95, Doubleday. 
Scientifics Catalog for Science 
and Engineering Enthusiasts 
Edmund Scientifics, East Gloucester 
Pike, Barrington, NJ 08007-1380, 
800/728-6999, 
www.edsci.com/scientifics. 


56 WFF N' PROOF Games 

WFF $3 ($6.50 postpaid), 

WFF N PROOF $25 ($30 postpaid), 
Tac Tickle $3 ($6.50 postpaid), 

The REAL Numbers Game 

$3 ($6.50 postpaid), 

On-Sets: The Game of Set Theory 
$25 ($30 postpaid), 

Equations $25 ($30 postpaid), 

The Propaganda Game 

$25 ($30 postpaid). 

WFF N' PROOF, 1490 South 
Boulevard, Ann Arbor, 

MI 48104-4699, 

734/665-2269, www.wtf-n-proof.com, 


57 American Mg be Handy Book 
D.C. Beard. 1882; 441 pp. $12.95. 
American Girls Handy Book 

Lina and Adelia Beard, 1887; 472 pp. 
$12.95. David R. Godine, 

Box 450, Jaffrey, NH 03452, 
800/226-0934, 603/532-4100. 


58 Sense Relaxation 

Bernard Gunther, Ph.D. and Paul 
Fusco. 1968; $9.95. 

Newcastle Publishing Inc., 

PO Box 7589, Van Nuys, CA 91409, 
818/787-4378. 





Zen Flesh, Zen Bones 

Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki. 
1957; 211 pp. $12.95. Tuttle 
Publishing, RR 1 Box 231-5, 

North Clarendon, VT 05759, 
800/526-2778, 802/773-8930, 

Yoga, Bodywork & Meditation 
Supplies 

YogaMats, PO Box 885044, 

San Francisco, CA 94188, 
800/720-YOGA, 415/626-7723. 
Zafus, zabutons, yoga mats, bolsters. 
59 Selt-Hypnotism: The Technique 
and Its Use in Daily Living 

Leslie Lecron. 1966; 228 pp. $9.95. 
Prentice Hall. 


Psycho-Cybernetics 

Maxwell Maltz. 1960; 256 pp. $10. 
Wilshire Book Company, 

12015 Sherman Road, 

North Hollywood, CA 91605, 
818/765-8579, www.mpowers.com. 


60 The Fundamentals of Yoga: 
A Handbook of Theory, Practice, 
and Application 

Rammurti Mishra. 1987; 224 pp, 
$13.95. Crown Publishers. 





The Teachings of Don Juan: 

A Yaqui Way of Knowledge 

Carlos Castaneda, 1968; 210 pp. 
$14.95. University of California Press. 


617 The Act of Creation 
Arthur Koestler. 1964; 751 pp. 
$14.95. Penguin Arkana. 


The | Ching: Or, Book of Changes 
Translated by Richard Wilhelm and 
Cary F. Baynes. 3rd edition, 

1992; 802 pp. $22.50. 

Princeton University Press.